Rupert Murdoch

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

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

“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 t...”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 polic...”

“The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.”

“No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to ha...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 thing...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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. A...”

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