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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. "
Conrad Black
Citizenship
Never
Mistake
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" I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. "
Conrad Black
Citizen
Am
I Am
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Rich
Government
Mob
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Union
Doubt
Great
" 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
" 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
" I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it. "
Conrad Black
Being
Surviving
Proud
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Life
Freedom
Honor
" 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
" The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. "
Conrad Black
Been
Watergate
Facts
" I don't have any shame. "
Conrad Black
Shame
Any
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Wealth
Fraud
Government
" Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. "
Conrad Black
Anything
Personality
Company
" 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
" 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
" Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. "
Conrad Black
Psychology
Now
Economics
" Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system. "
Conrad Black
School System
Teachers
System
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Perception
My Own
Keep
" Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. "
Conrad Black
Only
War
Strength
" I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. "
Conrad Black
Sympathy
Seek
Never
" The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone. "
Conrad Black
Danger
Service
Soul
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Arab
Success
Retreat
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Human
Justice
Supreme Court
" There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others. "
Conrad Black
Others
Opinion
Value
" The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate. "
Conrad Black
Christ
Vicar
Individual
" All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. "
Conrad Black
Punishment
American
Prisons
" Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. "
Conrad Black
Most
History
Media
" 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
" 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. "
Conrad Black
Seriously
God
Early
" Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties. "
Conrad Black
Active
More
Prison
" Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing. "
Conrad Black
Wealth
Never
Chief