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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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Roger Ailes
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 15
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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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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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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You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don't get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there's some good news.
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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
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It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
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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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Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.
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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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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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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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Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.
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I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.
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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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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.
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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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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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