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

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

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

" I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bury your mistakes. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. "

" Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. "