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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

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

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.

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

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I think everyone's against abortion.