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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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. "

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

" 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. "