RUPERT MURDOCH

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.

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.

CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it?

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.

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.

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.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

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

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

I think everyone's against abortion.

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

I feel that people I trusted - I don't know who, on what level - have let me down, and I think they have behaved disgracefully, and it's for them to pay. And I think, frankly, that I'm the best person to see it through.