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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.
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I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
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I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
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I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.
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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.
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Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
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Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
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Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
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I don't have any shame.
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I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.
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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
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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.
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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.
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I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
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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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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 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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Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.
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Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
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No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East except Israel and Jordan and most of the oil-rich states, and the entire former British Indian Empire were better governed by Europeans.
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The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.
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Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.
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The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
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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.
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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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All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's.
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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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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.
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Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
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Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
Written by Conrad Black

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