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.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

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

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

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

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

I believe people will be watching their TV screens for a long time and that TV channels have a long-term life.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

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.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

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.

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.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.