Quotes from Roger Ailes

Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.

There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.

I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

I'm very confident in the management team, very confident in the on-air people. That's the whole secret to everything. It's having people who love to work where they're working and want to win.

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

I was in the Oval Office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage. I got to thinking, 'We have a feed from the moon. We've got a feed from the Earth. I can set up the first interplanetary shot in history.'

It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.

I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

I could never be elected.

In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias.

We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong.