Roger Ailes

“I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.”

“I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.”

“I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.”

“What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.”

“Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.”

“I would like to be on 'Dancing with the Stars.'”

“I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.”

“Television is not a gimmick.”

“The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.”

“People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.”

“I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.”

“Twitter is a wonderful device. And I call it a device, but there are people that are addicted to it now. That's not good. You're really not very interesting using only so many letters.”

“I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.”

“Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.”

“Joe McGinniss will be remembered as a talented man. He changed political writing forever in 1968. We differed on many things, but he had a good heart.”

“Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.”

“'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.”

“I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.”

“Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.”

“I don't ignore anything. Somebody gets in my face, I get in their face.”