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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.
- Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any shame.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mercy
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I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
- People
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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.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.
- Better
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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.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Exaggerated
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- Nov 07, 2020
The facts of Watergate have been wildly exaggerated.
- Defeat
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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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beyond
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fruitless
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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.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
- Christians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.
- Draconian
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Least
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Freedom
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