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" 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. "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Moral

Leader

Values

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better. "

Rupert Murdoch

Better

Sleep

" I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate. "

" 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. "

" Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure. "

Rupert Murdoch

Pressure

Only

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

" 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. "

" If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something. "

" The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets. "

Rupert Murdoch

Government

Less

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

Rupert Murdoch

Important

Reputation

" 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. "

" I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. "

" The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Rupert Murdoch

Father

Media

" I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. "

Rupert Murdoch

Together

Amazed