Quotes from Roger Ailes

Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, 'Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room? What the hell is he doing?' I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.

Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.

I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.

I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.

I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

I don't ignore anything. Somebody gets in my face, I get in their face.

I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.

There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.