I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
Roger Ailes
We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.
'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.
The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.
What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.
I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
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.
Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.
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.'
I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.
Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.
CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
Personally, I'm right of center.
There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.
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 have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
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.
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.
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.
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.
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.
Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.
I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
I've been an underdog all my life.
Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.
Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.
I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.
Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.
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.
Television is not a gimmick.
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.
I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.
I never want to get caught with not expecting something.
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.
I would like to be on 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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 like talent. I respect talent. I teach talent.
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 doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.
I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.
I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.
If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.
