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" Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. "
Conrad Black
World
Perhaps
Persecution
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" 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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" Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. "
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" 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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" 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
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Outside
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" I don't have any shame. "
Conrad Black
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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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Decades
Place
" 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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Doubt
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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" Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. "
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Most
History
Media
" 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
" 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
" All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation. "
Conrad Black
Punishment
American
Prisons
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company. "
Conrad Black
Anything
Personality
Company
" I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. "
Conrad Black
Trying
Around
Foreign
" 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
" I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. "
Conrad Black
Sympathy
Seek
Never
" I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. "
Conrad Black
Citizen
Am
I Am
" The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated. "
Conrad Black
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. "
Conrad Black
Wealth
Fraud
Government
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. "
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Used
Yesterday
Million
" 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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Arab
Success
Retreat
" 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 vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate. "
Conrad Black
Christ
Vicar
Individual