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" 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? "

Rupert Murdoch

Health

Children

Government

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

Rupert Murdoch

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. "

" We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

Rupert Murdoch

Best

Feel

" 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. "

" I think everyone's against abortion. "

" 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 considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. "

" As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" Bury your mistakes. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Rupert Murdoch

Father

Media