Roger Ailes
What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.Collection: Communication
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.Collection: Friendship
I quit politics because I hated it.
I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.
The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.
I've been an underdog all my life.
There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.
CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
Television and I grew up together.
My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.
Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.
Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.
CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.
If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.
I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
Tell me who you want to see on the Left, and I'll hire them. If you give me a big name that's out there, that's floating around and wants work, I'd be happy to hire them.
I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.
A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.
It would be a lie to say that I don't care what people say about me. Every human being cares unless they're nuts. Am I nuts? But you can't allow that to override your mission.
You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.
I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.
The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.
I believe business news is general news.
Fox News has a very-high-income audience, and I think that any business channel automatically draws that. We're not gonna reach for a lower financial demographic.
Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.
I believe most people think the economy is very important.
I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.
I could never be elected.
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.
Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.
The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.
I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.
Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.
Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.
I don't pay a lot of attention to communist infiltrators.
Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.
When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.
A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.
If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.