My mother just died at 103, so that’s a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents. – Rupert Murdoch
I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation. – Rupert Murdoch
I’m not looking for a legacy, and you’ll never shut up the critics. I’ve been around 50 years. When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got. – Rupert Murdoch
I’m a strange mixture of my mother’s curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother’s father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. – Rupert Murdoch
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason. – Rupert Murdoch
Thankfully, Australia has emerged from its inauspicious colonial beginnings to become a proud nation, a nation that overcame those primeval prejudices. – Rupert Murdoch
If you’re in the media, particularly newspapers, you are in the thick of all the interesting things that are going on in a community, and I can’t imagine any other life that one would want to dedicate oneself to. – Rupert Murdoch
No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong. – Rupert Murdoch
I was brought up in a publishing home, a newspaper man’s home, and was excited by that, I suppose. I saw that life at close range and, after the age of ten or twelve, never really considered any other. – Rupert Murdoch
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. – Rupert Murdoch
You can’t have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education. – Rupert Murdoch
Societies or companies that expect a glorious past to shield them from the forces of change driven by advancing technology will fail and fall. That applies as much to my own, the media industry, as to every other business on the planet. – Rupert Murdoch
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. – Rupert Murdoch
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? – Rupert Murdoch