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" Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing. "

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

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

" I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. "

" Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. "

" 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. "

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