Roger Ailes Quotes

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Roger Ailes

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 15, 1940

I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

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I was the youngest producer of a national television show when I was twenty-five. I took it to 182 markets. Tremendous success.

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Fox News Latino has a mission to point out the positives of the Latino population, operating within the framework of making America great.

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Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

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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.

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I happen to think that the Latino audience is an essentially traditional audience and will go to Fox News for traditional American values.

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Nobody wants to be in a position of defending anything Fox might do for minorities.

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Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.

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I don't want my son to have to collect a bunch of 'New York Times' articles to see what I was like.

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I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

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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.

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I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I consider myself a freedom fighter, fighting for my clients.

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The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.

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Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

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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.

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