Roger Ailes

“The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.”

“My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.”

“Fox News has a very-high-income audience, and I think that any business channel automatically draws that. We're not gonna reach for a lower financial demographic.”

“The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.”

“Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.”

“A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.”

“If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.”

“Nobody wants to be in a position of defending anything Fox might do for minorities.”

“Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.”

“Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.”

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

“If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.”

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

“I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.”

“I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.”

“The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.”

“I'd like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She'd get ratings.”

“Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.”

“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.”

“When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.”