Roger Ailes Quotes

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Roger Ailes

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 15, 1940

David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.

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There is a tendency in the media to simplify me to the point that I am somehow a tough guy. I think there is a lot more to me.

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In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.

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Television is not a gimmick.

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People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.

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I like talent. I respect talent. I teach talent.

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I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.

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If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.

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My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.

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I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.

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I'd like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She'd get ratings.

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I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well to them, so I don't give them. But I'm not a doormat. I try to meet the appropriate level of communications.

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If somebody comes to me looking for a fight, they might get one.

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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.

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I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

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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.

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We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

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I have a good eye for talent, and my talent performs the best.

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I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.

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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.

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