Roger Ailes Quotes

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Roger Ailes

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 15, 1940

I quit politics because I hated it.

Roger Ailes

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.

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All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.

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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.

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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.

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The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

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I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

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What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

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

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Wolf Blitzer is an excellent reporter, but he's not a star.

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Money will find you if people believe in your message.

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My job is to cover the news and do it accurately and fair. And we do.

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CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

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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.

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We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

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You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.

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Television and I grew up together.

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

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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.

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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.

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