Barbara Amiel Quotes

Canada, Journalist
December 4, 1940

Barbara Joan Estelle Amiel, Baroness Black of Crossharbour (born 4 December 1940) is a British conservative journalist, writer, and socialite. She is the wife of former media baron and convicted felon Conrad Black.

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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

Barbara Amiel
- Society
- Perfect
- Surprise
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

Barbara Amiel
- Trying
- American
- America

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Barbara Amiel
- Up
- Morning
- Ideas
Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

Barbara Amiel
- Power
- Confidence
- Sexy
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Barbara Amiel
- World
- Society
- Free