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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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