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" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Sea
Stop
Go
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" I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. "
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" At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top. "
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Top
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" I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening. "
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" 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 looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "
Rupert Murdoch
You
Proud
Change
" 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. "
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Know
" I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. "
Rupert Murdoch
Over
Operated
Newspapers
" 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
" The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires. "
Rupert Murdoch
Choices
Market
Human
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Change
Business
Past
" I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. "
Rupert Murdoch
Together
Am
Amazed
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
People
Media
Information
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Start
People
Media
" 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
" Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.' "
Rupert Murdoch
Know
Look
News
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Live
World
Creative
" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "
Rupert Murdoch
Capitalism
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
I Can
Love
People
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Happy
Newspaper
People
" From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. "
Rupert Murdoch
Reason
News
Giving
" 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
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
News
Lift
Information
" I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other. "
Rupert Murdoch
Newspaper
Man
Never
" What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill? "
Rupert Murdoch
Health
Children
Government
" 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 certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. "
Rupert Murdoch
Take
Line
Fox
" Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart. "
Rupert Murdoch
Great
Words
Mind
" 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
" 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
" 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