Quotes by Conrad Black

About Conrad Black:

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour is a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and author. He is a non-affiliated life peer, and a convicted felon in the United States for fraud. Black controlled Hollinger International, once the world's third-largest English-language newspaper empire, which published The Daily Telegraph (UK), Chicago Sun Times (U.S.), The Jerusalem Post (Israel), National Post (Canada), and hundreds of community newspapers in North America, before he was fired by the board of Hollinger in 2004.
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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 governe...

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The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.

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Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

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

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

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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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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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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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Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

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

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

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Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

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I don't have any shame.

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The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

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

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

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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.

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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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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-a...

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Author Bio

  • NameConrad Black
  • DescriptionCanadian-born newspaper publisher
  • AliasesConrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour
  • BornAugust 25, 1944
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionPolitician; Historian; Publisher
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of Canada