I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.