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" I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible. "
Rupert Murdoch
Felt
Just
Possible
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" As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world. "
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World
Creative
" Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? "
Rupert Murdoch
Something
Order
Would
" Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. "
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Writing
Without
" From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. "
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News
Giving
" I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. "
Rupert Murdoch
Look
Know
Good
" There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard. "
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Start
People
Media
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Live
Business
Nice
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Me
Best
Feel
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Leaving
You
Successful
" The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. "
Rupert Murdoch
Government
UK
Less
" I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. "
Rupert Murdoch
Crazy
Children
Family
" I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. "
Rupert Murdoch
Newspaper
You
Up
" If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to. "
Rupert Murdoch
You
Life
Interesting
" I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. "
Rupert Murdoch
Mind
Book
Say
" I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all. "
Rupert Murdoch
Bad
Doubt
Ashamed
" At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top. "
Rupert Murdoch
Open
Top
Society
" I think everyone's against abortion. "
Rupert Murdoch
Everyone
Abortion
Think
" The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. "
Rupert Murdoch
Reason
First
First Amendment
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
New York
Love
Challenge
" I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian. "
Rupert Murdoch
Believe
Conservative
Government
" CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight. "
Rupert Murdoch
Play
Choice
You
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Young
Information
Know
" 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. "
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I Can
Love
People
" I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. "
Rupert Murdoch
Family
Mother
Son
" I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. "
Rupert Murdoch
Over
Operated
Newspapers
" No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. "
Rupert Murdoch
Language
You
Without
" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "
Rupert Murdoch
Capitalism
" When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "
Rupert Murdoch
Change
You
Proud
" I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. "
Rupert Murdoch
Remembered
Change
I Am
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Society
Australia
Free