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" Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel. "
Conrad Black
Media
Least
Jews
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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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Me
Mind
" 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. "
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More
Prison
" I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. "
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Yesterday
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" 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
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Africa
Better
" I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. "
Conrad Black
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Foreign
" 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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Israel
" 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
" Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. "
Conrad Black
World
Perhaps
Persecution
" 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
" I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. "
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Citizen
Am
I Am
" 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 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. "
Conrad Black
Natural
Unpredictable
Gentle
" The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. "
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Been
Watergate
Facts
" 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
" I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it. "
Conrad Black
Being
Surviving
Proud
" Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system. "
Conrad Black
School System
Teachers
System
" 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
" 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
" For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world. "
Conrad Black
Been
Decades
Place
" 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
" All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. "
Conrad Black
Punishment
American
Prisons
" Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. "
Conrad Black
Survival
Great Nation
Great
" 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'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
" The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate. "
Conrad Black
Christ
Vicar
Individual
" 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
" Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. "
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Right
Take
Self-Defense
" 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
" 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
" Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. "
Conrad Black
Anything
Personality
Company