Conrad Black Quotes - Page 2

The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

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.

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

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

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.

Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

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

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.