205 Quotes by Rupert Murdoch

I’ve always been more interested in the content of our newspapers, political positions day to day, the thrill of communicating with people through words that I am in the pure business aspects.

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.

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.

You’ve got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

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

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.

I have never asked a prime minister for anything.

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.

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it’s worthwhile.