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" At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice. "

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" For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world. "

Conrad Black

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" I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me. "

Conrad Black

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" The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. "

" Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history. "

" The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive. "

" The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same. "

" Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. "

" The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption. "

" All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest, freest' country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and - among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described. "

" 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. "

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

" All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. "

" Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing. "

" From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him. "

" Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel. "

" All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. "

" Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. "

" Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians. "

" Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. "

" No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans. "

" I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. "

" For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world. "

" The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon. "

" Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the 1967 borders is rubbish. "

" Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. "

" I don't have any shame. "

Conrad Black

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" Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system. "

" Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. "

" There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. "

" Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter. "