Roger Ailes

“I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.”

“I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.”

“If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.”

“If somebody comes to me looking for a fight, they might get one.”

“I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.”

“My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.”

“Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.”

“You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.”

“I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.”

“If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.”

“There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.”

“Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.”

“In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias.”

“CNBC was completely in the dumper when I went there.”

“It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.”

“I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.”

“I didn't give up my citizenship to create and run a news organization.”

“I never want to get caught with not expecting something.”

“CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.”

“I was in the Oval Office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage. I got to thinking, 'We have a feed from the moon. We've got a feed from the Earth. I can set up the first interplanetary shot in history.'”