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" It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests. "
Rupert Murdoch
Got
Other
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" 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
" 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
" 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
Me
Appreciate
Know
" Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. "
Rupert Murdoch
New
Writing
Without
" Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. "
Rupert Murdoch
Long
Climate Change
Change
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. "
Rupert Murdoch
Checks
Buck
Guy
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Important
Details
Daily
" 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
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Wife
Home
Keep Going
" Bury your mistakes. "
Rupert Murdoch
Your
Mistakes
Bury
" I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible. "
Rupert Murdoch
Felt
Just
Possible
" In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child. "
Rupert Murdoch
Child
Sports
Society
" The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. "
Rupert Murdoch
Change
World
Will
" 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
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Television
Thought
Quality
" 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
" 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'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
" When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right. "
Rupert Murdoch
Wrong
Right
Hear
" I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. "
Rupert Murdoch
Mind
Book
Say
" The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products. "
Rupert Murdoch
America
Know
Service
" My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. "
Rupert Murdoch
Father
Me
Media
" I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life. "
Rupert Murdoch
People
Long
Life
" 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
" The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog. "
Rupert Murdoch
Editor
Digital
Blog
" Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. "
Rupert Murdoch
Except
Everybody
Speaks