For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

My father left me with a clear sense that the media was something different.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we'll have.

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.

Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.