Rupert Murdoch Quotes
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For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
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Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try.
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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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We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.
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I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
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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.
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If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun.
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Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
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We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.
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Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.
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We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.
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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
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I think everyone's against abortion.
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Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.
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I did not come all this way not to interfere
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
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We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.
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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.
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I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.
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News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.
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Well, except for ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, the Washington Post, and about another 100 newspapers, I find little evidence of liberal bias in the media.
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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.
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I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
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