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" I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. "
Conrad Black
Sympathy
Seek
Never
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" Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. "
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" All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. "
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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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
" Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. "
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Great Nation
Great
" 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. "
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Success
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" 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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" The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate. "
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Christ
Vicar
Individual
" 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
" Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel. "
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I don't have any shame. "
Conrad Black
Shame
Any
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Peace
Red
Corruption
" 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
" 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. "
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News
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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
" 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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Justice
Supreme Court
" I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. "
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Citizen
Am
I Am
" Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. "
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Most
History
Media
" 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. "
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Object
British
Same
" Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing. "
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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. "
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Lost
War
Off