Conrad Black Quotes

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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

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We can't spend ourselves rich; we can't drink ourselves sober; and we will pay an unbearable price if we don't remember that the power to tax is the power to destroy.

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A jumped-up little twerp [and a] prime candidate for exorcism

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Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.

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It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

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An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

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My experience with journalists authorizes me to record that a very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest and inadequately supervised.

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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight.

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Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

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Those who would retain his services should confine him to subjects better suited…to his sniggering, puerile, defamatory and cruelly limited talents.

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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

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I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

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