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

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

" Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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