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Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.

Roger Ailes

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Roger Ailes
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 15
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Businessperson
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Television Producer
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Ohio
Roger Eugene Ailes
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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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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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One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, You know what? I think I can make this a little better and I'm willing to get in and try. Because, I'll tell you, there are a hell of a lot of reasons to stay away from running for office today.
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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 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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It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
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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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Television and I grew up together.
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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 hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
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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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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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Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.
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If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.
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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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There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it it's not worth it.
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You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
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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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