Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .