The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

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.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

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

Why is Jewish owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.