Rupert Murdoch Quotes
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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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Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.
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The current days of the Internet will soon be over.
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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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Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.
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My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.
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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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I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago.
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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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I have never asked a prime minister for anything.
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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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Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
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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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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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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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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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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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Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
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Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic.
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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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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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One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
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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.