Rupert Murdoch

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

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.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

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.

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

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.