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
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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.
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This was a magnificent company that the people who have seized it and used it as a platform from which to persecute and defame the people who built it have torn apart and destroyed, to the expense of the shareholder.
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An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.
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I don't have any shame.
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I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
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Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
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Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
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The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
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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 can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.
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Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
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Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.