It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

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.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

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

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man's home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other.

Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'

Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.

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

At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies.

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

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.

You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people.

From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

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?

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

We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations.

A lot of people are very happy to read their newspaper either on their iPad or - startlingly and faster and faster the figures go up - on their telephone, on their smart phone.

If the sea level rises 6 inches, that's a big deal... we can't mitigate that; we can't stop it. We've just got to stop building vast houses on seashores and go back a little bit.

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

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

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.

Bury your mistakes.

People who watch 'Fox News,' you may say, and this is anecdotal, but they are passionate about it. In the most unlikely places, like down in Soho where I used to live, people would come up to me and thank me for it. People I didn't know from a bar of soap. People appreciate that at least they're being heard. It is much more watchable.

I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself.

In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.

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

I think everyone's against abortion.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet.

The CNN international is a different service - it is even more leftist and anti-American than CNN is. That's their business, that's fine, but it can't be getting any revenue. There is no cable network that I know of anywhere in the world other than in America that pays them for their products.

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

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

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.