Quotes By Rupert Murdoch

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

I think everyone's against abortion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

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.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

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.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

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.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

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

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

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.

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

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

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

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.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.