Quotes By Rupert Murdoch

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

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

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

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

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

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.

I was absolutely shocked, appalled and ashamed when I heard about the Milly Dowler case only two weeks ago.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest thing to come out of this [the war in Iraq] for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country.