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Quotes from Roger Ailes

I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.
~ Roger Ailes
Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.
~ Roger Ailes
In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
~ Roger Ailes
I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.
~ Roger Ailes
I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.
~ Roger Ailes
Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.
~ Roger Ailes
The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.
~ Roger Ailes
Personally, I'm right of center.
~ Roger Ailes
People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.
~ Roger Ailes
I didn't give up my citizenship to create and run a news organization.
~ Roger Ailes
Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.
~ Roger Ailes
I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.
~ Roger Ailes
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
~ Roger Ailes
I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.
~ Roger Ailes
I quit politics because I hated it.
~ Roger Ailes
Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.
~ Roger Ailes
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
~ Roger Ailes
Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.
~ Roger Ailes
If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they're less likely to play games with you.
~ Roger Ailes
Fox News Latino has a mission to point out the positives of the Latino population, operating within the framework of making America great.
~ Roger Ailes
My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.
~ Roger Ailes
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.
~ Roger Ailes
Joe McGinniss will be remembered as a talented man. He changed political writing forever in 1968. We differed on many things, but he had a good heart.
~ Roger Ailes
The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.
~ Roger Ailes