"I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself."
"My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents."
"Now if you look at the London 'Times,' you'll find that with quite a number of the photographs, you touch them, and they turn into videos. I think newspapers come alive that way. We talk about 'papers.' We should cut out the word 'paper,' you know? It's 'news organizations.'"
"I'm a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity."
"Climate change has been going on as long as the planet is here, and there will always be a little bit of it."
"Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary."
"I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives."
"At News Corporation, we have a history of challenging media orthodoxies."
"The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog."
"Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices."
"You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education."
"In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child."
"You can't have a free democracy if you don't have a free media that can provide vital and independent information to the people."
"From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want."
"We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done."
"Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure."
"The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason."
"Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism."
"What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?"
"At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top."
"People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged."
"The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires."
"We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation with a stagnant economy and stagnant aspirations."
"In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves."
"No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong."
