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" 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. "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Remembered

Change

I Am

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

" 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. "

" We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web. "

" 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. "

" I think everyone's against abortion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill? "

" 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. "

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

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

Rupert Murdoch

Father

Media

" 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. "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Capitalism

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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