Quotes from Roger Ailes

Truth is whatever people will believe.

The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.

I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.

I love pressure situations. I won't run for cover, and I'll try to take as much of the heat as possible. Because I feel I can stand it better than most people.

I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.

I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.

You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.

Nobody wants to be in a position of defending anything Fox might do for minorities.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

I've been an underdog all my life.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

There are more conservatives on Fox. But we are not a conservative network.

I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of 'New York Times' articles to see what I was like.

Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.

Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.