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" Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. "

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" We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations. "

" Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. "

" I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through. "

" People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged. "

" People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things. "

" My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it. "

" In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. "

" I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. "

" I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way. "

" My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. "

" Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet. "

" The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. "

" We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web. "

" I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity. "

" Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business. "

" The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. "

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" If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. "

" You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people. "

" So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die. "

" Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. "

" I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. "

" I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives. "

" It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way. "

" The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. "

" A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone. "

" If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit. "

" From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. "

" I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate. "

" We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done. "

" I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. "