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" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Own
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" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Crazy
Children
Family
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Shopping
Young
Men
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
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" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
You
Proud
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" The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. "
Rupert Murdoch
Reason
First
First Amendment
" Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. "
Rupert Murdoch
New
Writing
Without
" I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. "
Rupert Murdoch
Look
Know
Good
" Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it. "
Rupert Murdoch
Long
Climate Change
Change
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Television
Thought
Quality
" My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. "
Rupert Murdoch
You
Years
Start
" 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
Me
Best
Feel
" Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices. "
Rupert Murdoch
Become
Proud
Australia
" From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want. "
Rupert Murdoch
Reason
News
Giving
" I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world. "
Rupert Murdoch
Over
Operated
Newspapers
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Life
Children
Know
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Leaving
You
Successful
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Outside
Themselves
Think
" 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
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
New York
Love
Challenge
" Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism. "
Rupert Murdoch
Capitalism
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Wife
Home
Keep Going
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
I Can
Love
People
" The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. "
Rupert Murdoch
Change
World
Will
" I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible. "
Rupert Murdoch
Felt
Just
Possible
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
News
Lift
Information
" One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business. "
Rupert Murdoch
Business
Because
Support
" My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different. "
Rupert Murdoch
Father
Me
Media
" Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure. "
Rupert Murdoch
Print
Pressure
Only
" Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? "
Rupert Murdoch
Something
Order
Would
" 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. "
Rupert Murdoch
Play
Choice
You