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Conrad Black Biography

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG (born 25 August 1944) is a British former newspaper publisher, author, and convicted felon. He is a non-affiliated life peer.

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I don't have any shame.

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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

Commitment, Numbers, Views, Dishonest, Public, Abrasive

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.

Determination, Faith, Government, People

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.

Greed, Opinion, Has Beens, Underestimated, Denigrated

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.

Credibility, Firewall, Issues, Keep, Perception, Retain

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.

Bars, Benches, Ensure, Excessive, Hands

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.

Anti Bullying, Fairly, Hope, Mind, Opinion, Terms

It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

Biden, Distinguished, Galling, Hypocrite, Judgment, Sitting

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

Company, Loyalty, Murdoch, Personality, Quite

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Successful, Media, Operators, Proprietor, Rupert

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Sympathy, Mercy, Asks, Seek

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

Foreign, Stir, Trying, War, Wars

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

America, Decades, Militant, Place, Term, World

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.

Change, Destiny, Historic, Leader, Summit, War

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.

Cutting, Effecting, Effectively, Party, War

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.

Doe, Effect, Natural, Unpredictable, Volume

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

Controlled, Habitually, Israel, Media, Outlets, Reflexively

Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

Corporate, Fads, Governance, Like, Zealot

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

Nation, Nations, Survival, Terrorist, Threaten

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.

Countries, Country, Israel, Numbers, Sufficient

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