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
ambition people trying
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 .
mistake promise trying
I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
war trying
I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
concluded contact entertain god seriously seventies trying
From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.
either grade half
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
countries figure good native
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.
case complete expose fraud
I want to get on with it. . . . I want to expose this case for the complete fraud that it is.
accounting billion billions colossal dollars lost people
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,
attacked borders endless israel original powers
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.
nuclear object powers prevent
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.
absolute danger
The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
active almost constantly criminal demands industry public unskilled
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.
I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.
history largest plurality term
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.