Tony Blankley Quotes
There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.
See {625339} and {622808} for similar conservative views.
Tony Blankley, Press Secretary to the Speaker of the House (Republican), California Deputy Attorney General (Republican), Journalist, NBC The McLaughlin Group, May 28, 2006
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See Oliver Stone {625339} for a modern, popular culture, icon of this idea. Several years after this interview, Black, with business interests in several countries, was convicted and served a jail sentence in the United States for fraud. His greed got the best of him.
See Conrad Black {622808} for a real life version of this idea.
Ironically, Boesky was convicted the following year of insider dealing on the New York Stock Exchange and sentenced to three years in prison.
President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the same groups similarly. See {638453} and {639956}.
- Born: January 21, 1948
- Died: January 7, 2012
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Public Relations Executive, Newspaper Editor, Television Commentator, Radio Commentator, Prosecutor, Child Actor
Anthony David "Tony" Blankley was an American political analyst who gained fame as the press secretary for Newt Gingrich, the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years, and as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He later became an Executive Vice President with Edelman public relations in Washington, D.C. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow in National-Security Communications at the Heritage Foundation, a weekly contributor to the nationally syndicated public radio programme Left, Right & Center, the author of The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? and American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century. He served as the editorial page editor for The Washington Times from 2002-2009.