Rupert Murdoch

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.

Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary.

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.

Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

If you're in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can't imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

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

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.

Bury your mistakes.

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

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.

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

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

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

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

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

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

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.

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.

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

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

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

A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.

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 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.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

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

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

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.

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.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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.

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.