Conrad Black
Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSGis a Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher and author. He is a non-affiliated life peer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth25 August 1944
I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
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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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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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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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There was a colossal bankruptcy, 50,000 people lost their jobs, tens of billions of dollars were lost and there was a $4 billion accounting fraud. Keep a little perspective, guys,
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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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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.
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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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I don't know him, ... I accept that he's a competent prosecutor, but he doesn't know anything about this case. He just swoops in for the press conference and fluffs his lines.
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I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.
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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.
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Absolute nonsense. There's no truth or substance whatsoever to these charges,
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a complete vindication of the defendants, and exposure of their persecutors.