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

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

All forms of government ultimately are not going to succeed in trying to control or censor the Internet.

To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology is shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite. Now it’s the people who are taking control.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

While we reduce our own carbon footprint we will encourage the companies who truck our DVDs and newspapers, sell us paper, and provide an enormous range of products and services to all contribute.

I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.