Quotes from Rupert Murdoch

The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.

Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.

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

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

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

What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

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.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

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.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.