Conrad Black Quotes

United Kingdom, Publisher
August 25, 1944

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KCSG (born 25 August 1944) is a British former newspaper publisher and author. In 2007, Black was convicted on four counts of fraud in U.S. District Court in Chicago. While two of the criminal fraud charges were dropped on appeal, a conviction for felony fraud and obstruction of justice were upheld in 2010 and he was re-sentenced in to 42 months in prison and a fine of $125,000.

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It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.

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Those who would retain his services should confine him to subjects better suited…to his sniggering, puerile, defamatory and cruelly limited talents.

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Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.

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- Opinion
- Greed
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

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Black condemned the 1966 decision made by Harold Wilson to pull out of the Persian Gulf and scrap the Royal Navy's aircraft carriers. He regarded the resignation of Christopher Mayhew, Minister of Defence for the Navy as 'the last resonance of good sense in that country until Maggie Thatcher came in.'

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- Good
- Country
- Black
An overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

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- People
The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.

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- American
The swarming, grunting masses of jackals...

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A jumped-up little twerp and a prime candidate for exorcism

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- Up
Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

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I had never heard of Walter Young before, and I do not expect to hear from him again.

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