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Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.
I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
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.
For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.
You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.
Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.
No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.
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.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
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.
We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.
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?
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.
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
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.
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.
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.
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.
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.
The buck stops with me, but I can tick off dozens of very good senior executives that are responsible for hundreds or thousands of people who work for me.
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.
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'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
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.
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.
The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.
There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
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.
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.
I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.