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" In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves. "

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" 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. "

" We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. "

" I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life. "

" 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. "

" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "

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" 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. "

" The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. "

" 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. "

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

" Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices. "

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

" 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. "

" Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. "

" At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies. "

" 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. "

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

" My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. "

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

" Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. "

" 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. "

" Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. "

" 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.' "