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I don't have any shame.
I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.
Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
The bedraggled warhorse of American blowhardism.
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots.
The vicar of Christ is an individual, not an electorate.
Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.
I am proud of being in a U.S. federal prison and surviving it.
Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.
I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.
Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion.
Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.
[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
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 .
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.
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.
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.
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of criminal justice.
For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.
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.
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.
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.
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 have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.
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.