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" For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world. "
Conrad Black
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" Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. "
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Great Nation
Great
" 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. "
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Jewish
Israel
" 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. "
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Government
Mob
" I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. "
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Citizen
Am
I Am
" I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. "
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Used
Yesterday
Million
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Knowledge
Outside
Moral
" I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out. "
Conrad Black
Difficult
Good
Way
" 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. "
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Union
Doubt
Great
" I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it. "
Conrad Black
Being
Surviving
Proud
" I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain. "
Conrad Black
Citizenship
Never
Mistake
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Successful
Country
History
" The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance. "
Conrad Black
Faith
Determination
Balance
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Empires
Past
People
" Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing. "
Conrad Black
Wealth
Never
Chief
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Lost
War
Off
" Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. "
Conrad Black
Right
Take
Self-Defense
" Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. "
Conrad Black
World
Perhaps
Persecution
" The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone. "
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Danger
Service
Soul
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Peace
Red
Corruption
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Original
Arab
Boundaries
" Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. "
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Only
War
Strength
" I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. "
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Trying
Around
Foreign
" Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. "
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Psychology
Now
Economics
" The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. "
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Been
Watergate
Facts
" There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't. "
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Wealth
Fraud
Government
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Seriously
Africa
Better
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Legal
American
Bench
" 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
Bully
Me
Mind
" 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. "
Conrad Black
News
Man
Fly
" The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions. "
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Natural
Unpredictable
Gentle