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" 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. "

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" 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

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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. "

Rupert Murdoch

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" You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. "

Rupert Murdoch

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

" I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible. "

" No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong. "

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

" When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. "

" At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top. "

" You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "

" When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right. "

" Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. "

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

" 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

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" Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? "

" I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good. "

" Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. "

" I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one. "

" ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable. "

Rupert Murdoch

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