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Roger Ailes Inspirational Quotes (36)

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Television and I grew up together.
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The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face al Qaeda.
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Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.
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I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.
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I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.
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Anybody's position on an issue, anything they've said about an issue, and any way they've voted on an issue is fair game. You have every right to question that and go after it aggressively.
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CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
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When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.
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I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
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You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
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Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.
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Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.
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Candidates rarely win battles with the media, and unless you really know what you're doing you should not tangle with them. The exception is when you know this is a search-and- destroy mission on the part of the media and your case is very strong, you are very articulate, you know what you're trying to accomplish - and you have no alternatives.
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They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.
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I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.
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Don't back off on traditional values. It's important to show respect and tolerance for others, but they must show the same respect for your values. Tolerance is a two-way street.
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You can get people the qualifications But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
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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.
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It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
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If you are a good communicator, be unique: put yourself in your own commercials and do something a little different. To the extent you can focus on what it is you want to change, what it is you know how to change, and what it is you think will make life better for other people, you're going to do better.
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Phrase it in an interesting way don't phrase it in a mean or unfriendly way. Bob Dole said that if there's anything he would have done differently, he would have said [to George Bush] Start telling the truth about my record instead of Stop lying about my record. Frankly, had he done that, life might be different for Bob Dole today.
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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.
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The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.
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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
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