Does Rupert like me? I think so, but it doesn't matter. When I go up to the magic room in the sky every three months, if my numbers are right, I get ….

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 m….

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've al….

To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are….

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me..

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate ca….

One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, "You know what? I think I can make this a little b….

If you're running because you want a job that's prestigious or because you have this vague knowledge that you're better than everybody else, you're e….

Candidates rarely win battles with the media, and unless you really know what you're doing you should not tangle with them. The exception is when you….

Television and I grew up together..

I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening..

Reporters have a different point of view and a different job. Consequently, to the extent that you can help them turn in an interesting story that th….

You've got to attract interest in your candidate. The problem when you're running far behind is that you've got to move through those positive phases….

Every other network has given all their shows to liberals. We are the balance..

My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately..

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was..

There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper t….

Take the [1980] Jimmy Carter-Ronald Reagan debate. Carter kept trying to imply that somehow Ronald Reagan was going to push the button, or was irresp….

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today..

If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the….

An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike..