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" We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations. "

Rupert Murdoch

Society

Australia

Free

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" I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together. "

Rupert Murdoch

Together

Amazed

" I think everyone's against abortion. "

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

" Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart. "

" 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. "

" Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on. "

Rupert Murdoch

Newspaper

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Rupert Murdoch

Capitalism

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

Better

Sleep

" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

Appreciate

Know

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