Rupert Murdoch

“So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.”

“When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.”

“We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.”

“When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.”

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

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

“The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.”

“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.”

“Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.”

“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 feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.”

“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.”

“I think everyone's against abortion.”

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

“Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.”

“Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it.”

“Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.”