Conrad Black Quotes (17 Quotes)

Absolute nonsense. There's no truth or substance whatsoever to these charges,

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

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.

it is possible that a criminal indictment of Black is likewise imminent.

There was a colossal bankruptcy, 50,000 people lost their jobs, tens of billions of dollars were lost and there was a 4 billion accounting fraud. Keep a little perspective, guys,

The criminal aspect, from a shareholder's perspective, is important because it helps Hollinger International prove its civil case. Shareholders are not recovering meaningful money as a result of the criminal actions. 250,000 is great, but when you're looking for 500 million it doesn't go a long way.

I don't know him, ... I accept that he's a competent prosecutor, but he doesn't know anything about this case. He just swoops in for the press conference and fluffs his lines.

You can figure it out.

There's a lot of nonsense going on here. This has absolutely no relevance to this case. It's irritating. Come on, it would be irritating to you, wouldn't it If you had pictures of your family, a picture of the guy you wrote a book about that his secretary gave you, that had been a present from his own parliamentary caucus

We'll leave out whether he got a fair verdict or not,

This was a magnificent company that the people who have seized it and used it as a platform from which to persecute and defame the people who built it have torn apart and destroyed, to the expense of the shareholder.

he may be asked to testify in future actions... for that, we will have to stay tuned.

Keep a little perspective guys. This isn't Enron. This isn't WorldCom,

Look, I understand it's a good news story, but this has been one massive smear job from A to Z and it will have a surprise ending, a complete vindication of the defendants and an exposure of their persecutors.

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.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

I want to get on with it. . . . I want to expose this case for the complete fraud that it is.