You can't build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

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

[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.

As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still think it's worthwhile.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

I did not come all this way not to interfere