I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.
— Roger Ailes
I don't ignore anything. Somebody gets in my face, I get in their face.
I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.
We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong.
I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.
Personally, I'm right of center.
Yes, people will pay for the Fox News Channel, despite the fact that the general feeling, one created by the Internet, is that everything should be free.
The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.
I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.
Twitter is a wonderful device. And I call it a device, but there are people that are addicted to it now. That's not good. You're really not very interesting using only so many letters.
I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.
Nobody wants to be in a position of defending anything Fox might do for minorities.
Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.
I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.
I have a good eye for talent, and my talent performs the best.
If you're in the Senate and in the minority, you just get to give speeches and run around and raise money. If you're in the majority, you're under attack from the press every day.
What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.
If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they're less likely to play games with you.
I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.
I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
I was in the Oval Office when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon because I was called in to coordinate the coverage. I got to thinking, 'We have a feed from the moon. We've got a feed from the Earth. I can set up the first interplanetary shot in history.'
In most news, if you hear a conservative point of view, that's called bias. We believe if you eliminate such a viewpoint, that's bias.
There are more conservatives on Fox. But we are not a conservative network.
The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.
The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.
I love pressure situations. I won't run for cover, and I'll try to take as much of the heat as possible. Because I feel I can stand it better than most people.
I never want to get caught with not expecting something.
I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of 'New York Times' articles to see what I was like.
I happen to think that the Latino audience is an essentially traditional audience and will go to Fox News for traditional American values.
Fox News Latino has a mission to point out the positives of the Latino population, operating within the framework of making America great.
I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.
We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.
I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.
If somebody comes to me looking for a fight, they might get one.
'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.
Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.
You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.
We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.
Joe McGinniss will be remembered as a talented man. He changed political writing forever in 1968. We differed on many things, but he had a good heart.
If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.
Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.
I consider myself a freedom fighter, fighting for my clients.
I think that 'Fox & Friends' audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.
I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, 'Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room? What the hell is he doing?' I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.
Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.
Fox News Latino will show people how opportunities exist, that whenever we are overregulated, or there is too much government, we lose freedom. We lose power. That is, historically, one hundred percent true.
I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.
I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.
My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.
When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.
