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I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

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Rupert Murdoch
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: March 11
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If you want to judge my thinking, look at The Sun.
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I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel.
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[on Brexit] It's time for change. I just hope the right people give the right leadership.
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Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?
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Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.
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We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.
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I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.
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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.
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[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.
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I think the important thing is that there be plenty of newspapers, with plenty of different people controlling them, so that there are a variety of viewpoints, so there is a choice for the public. This is the freedom of the press that is needed.
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I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
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CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.
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I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.
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We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
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