Rupert Murdoch Quotes
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I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
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Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
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We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
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My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
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I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago.
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If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.
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I have never asked a prime minister for anything.
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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.
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Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
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Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.
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Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.
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We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours... That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer.
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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.
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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.
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It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
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All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.
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Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?
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We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero... Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.
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I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.
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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.
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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.
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Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
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Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
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We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films and television programs, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.