Roger Ailes Quotes

Van Jones has one job: to stir up racism, whether he can find it or not.

- Roger Ailes

Racism, Van, Whether, Stir

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.'

- Roger Ailes

Thinking, Office, Got, Armstrong

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

- Roger Ailes

Play, Difference, Pros, Amateur

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

- Roger Ailes

Run, Bad, Will, Leg

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.

- Roger Ailes

Think, News, Audience, Automatically

I've been kicked out of every damn church I've ever belonged to.

- Roger Ailes

Damn, Been, Ever, Kicked

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.

- Roger Ailes

Think, Audience, Very, Operation

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.

- Roger Ailes

Strong, Some, Everybody, Unknown

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

- Roger Ailes

Doing, Country, Old, Hispanics

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our people and say what he wants, I don't care. We would question him on his choice of words.

- Roger Ailes

Book, Question, Alec, Our People

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

- Roger Ailes

Search, Audience, Core, Phantom

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.

- Roger Ailes

Blind, Some, Networks, Acorn

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

- Roger Ailes

Financial, Shows, Personally, Administrator

We didn't have locks in the early 1940s because nobody got into anybody's house, and nobody did anything wrong.

- Roger Ailes

Locks, Anybody, 1940s, Early

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.

- Roger Ailes

Play, Week, Attend, Play Basketball

I've been thanked a lot in Wendy's, Applebee's, and Marriot hotels, I've never been thanked in Le Cirque, for some reason. I try to spend as little time as possible in Le Cirque; that's not because the food isn't good... I'm not the kind of guy who likes to find his food under his parsley.

- Roger Ailes

Reason, Some, Been, Little Time

I don't tell Rupert Murdoch who to endorse.

- Roger Ailes

Tell, Who, Endorse, None

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.

- Roger Ailes

Thought, Conservative, Alive, Traditions

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

- Roger Ailes

Like, Joe, Ashtray, Soft Spot

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.

- Roger Ailes

Big, Give, Hire, Floating

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.

- Roger Ailes

Want, Home Run, Ruth, None

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

- Roger Ailes

How, CNN, BBC, Report

Who's like Bill O'Reilly? If there was somebody like Bill O'Reilly, they'd be out there getting ratings. No matter how much the mainstream press dumps on him, the guy constantly delivers an interesting show. He's unique.

- Roger Ailes

Matter, Guy, Show, Ratings

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

- Roger Ailes

Hire, Like, Clinton, Ratings

I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.

- Roger Ailes

She, Sarah Palin, Palin, Ratings

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

- Roger Ailes

Myself, Intensity, Toughest, Maintaining

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.

- Roger Ailes

Anybody, Half, Half The Time, Humorous

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.

- Roger Ailes

Need, Tell, Mall, Programming

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

- Roger Ailes

View, Just, Conservatives, Programming

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.

- Roger Ailes

Addicted, Very, Using, Letters

Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.

- Roger Ailes

Chance, Anybody, Elected, Warren

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.

- Roger Ailes

Doing, Idea, Works, Faced

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

- Roger Ailes

Go, Qualification, Columbia, Journalism

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

- Roger Ailes

Against, Would, Were, Grain

If you've got a big star like O'Reilly, it does overshadow what the hard-news guys do during the day. That's the nature of television.

- Roger Ailes

Star, Big, Like, Big Star

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

- Roger Ailes

Worked, Summers, Putting, Pipe

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

- Roger Ailes

Lose, Fired, Lot, Humiliated

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.

- Roger Ailes

Political, Will, Joe, Changed

If people know you'll go to any lengths for your client, they're less likely to play games with you.

- Roger Ailes

Play, Go, Likely, Client

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.

- Roger Ailes

Politics, Always, Discovered, Twenty

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

- Roger Ailes

Doing, I Think, Allow, Feelings

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

- Roger Ailes

New, Need, Making, Targets

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

- Roger Ailes

New, Want, Like, Collect

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

Student, Diligent, Subject, Limits

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

- Roger Ailes

Change, Better, Charge, Platforms

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

- Roger Ailes

News, Making, Within, Operating

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

- Roger Ailes

Deep, Think, I Think, Underneath

I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.

- Roger Ailes

Legacy, Too Late, Will, Push

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.

- Roger Ailes

Every Day, Give, Speeches, Minority

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

- Roger Ailes

Fox, Stuff, Lot, Blue-Collar

I quit politics because I hated it.

- Roger Ailes

Politics, Quit, Because, I Quit

I like Marco Rubio. But I don't know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He's a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.

- Roger Ailes

Role, Like, Opponents, Nice Guy

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

- Roger Ailes

Making, Promoting, Having, Customers

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

- Roger Ailes

News, New, Nothing, Attacking

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

- Roger Ailes

News, Fair, Cover, Accurately

There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.

- Roger Ailes

Will, Always, Occasion, Rise

I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.

- Roger Ailes

Occasion, Rise

Usually, there are three or four major news spikes per year.

- Roger Ailes

News, Year, Major, Per

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

- Roger Ailes

Rather, Richard, Nixon, None

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.

- Roger Ailes

Other, About, Jon, In Other Words

The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.

- Roger Ailes

Extraordinary, Need, Latinos, Contributions

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

- Roger Ailes

Think, Pretty, I Think, Reached

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.

- Roger Ailes

Give, Like, Appropriate, Respond

I've been an underdog all my life.

- Roger Ailes

Underdog, My Life, Been, All My Life

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

- Roger Ailes

News, Caught, Get, NBC

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.

- Roger Ailes

News, Viewpoint, Bias

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

- Roger Ailes

Success, Society, Success Is, Bills

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

- Roger Ailes

Want, Clean Water, About, Extreme

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.

- Roger Ailes

Love, Heat, Feel, Situations

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.

- Roger Ailes

Think, Tough Guy, I Think, Simplify

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

- Roger Ailes

Freedom Of Religion, Press

The press is supposed to watch the powerful. And not throw in with them.

- Roger Ailes

Powerful, Watch, Throw, Press

When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.

- Roger Ailes

Love, Fall, Falls, Press

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

- Roger Ailes

Television, Show, Took, Producer

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.

- Roger Ailes

Percent, Show, Hundred, Historically

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

- Roger Ailes

Think, News, Happen, Latino

I didn't give up my citizenship to create and run a news organization.

- Roger Ailes

Organization, News, Give, Citizenship

Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.

- Roger Ailes

Country, Average, Dad, Ohio

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

- Roger Ailes

Wolf, Star, Excellent, Reporter

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

- Roger Ailes

News, Go, Pretty, Anyway

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

- Roger Ailes

Sunday, Everybody, Which, Every Sunday

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

- Roger Ailes

Culture, Defend, Should, Reinforce

Do I take alternative points of view? Yes, because all the media are going in another direction.

- Roger Ailes

Yes, Going, Another, Alternative

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

- Roger Ailes

Think, I Think, Almost, Almost Everything

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

- Roger Ailes

Never, Know, Pull, Trigger

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

- Roger Ailes

Chance, Great Believer, Believer

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

- Roger Ailes

Freedom, Myself, Clients, Consider

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

- Roger Ailes

Think, News, Very, Fox News

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.

- Roger Ailes

News, Fact, Will, Fox News

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

- Roger Ailes

Think, Been, I Think, Pigeonholed

'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag.

- Roger Ailes

Fair, Left-Wing, Rag, Vanity Fair

I could never be elected.

- Roger Ailes

Never, Could, Elected

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

- Roger Ailes

Might, Minorities, Wants, Defending

I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.

- Roger Ailes

Always, Other, Executives, Comfortable

There are more conservatives on Fox. But we are not a conservative network.

- Roger Ailes

More, Conservatives, Fox

Money will find you if people believe in your message.

- Roger Ailes

Money, Will, Find, Message

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

- Roger Ailes

Look, Want, Hip

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

- Roger Ailes

Ugly, Old, Going, Fat

I want to prove that a fat guy can get to 100 still working.

- Roger Ailes

Want, Prove, Still, Fat

Personally, I'm right of center.

- Roger Ailes

Right, Center, Personally

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

- Roger Ailes

Doing, Feel, I See, Cruel

I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.

- Roger Ailes

Change, Television, Going, Executive

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

- Roger Ailes

Never, Want, Caught, Expecting

I don't pay a lot of attention to communist infiltrators.

- Roger Ailes

Attention, Pay, Lot, Communist

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

- Roger Ailes

Best, Talent, Eye, Performs

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.

- Roger Ailes

Work, Over, Again, Field

I believe most people think the economy is very important.

- Roger Ailes

Think, Important, Most, Economy

Television is not a gimmick.

- Roger Ailes

Television, Gimmick

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.

- Roger Ailes

Allow, About, Your, Lie

I would like to be on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

- Roger Ailes

Dancing, Like, Would, Stars

I believe business news is general news.

- Roger Ailes

Business, Believe, News, General

I don't ignore anything. Somebody gets in my face, I get in their face.

- Roger Ailes

Face, Get, Gets, Ignore

If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

- Roger Ailes

Other, Left, Far, Conservative

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

- Roger Ailes

Respect, Teach, Like, Talent

Television and I grew up together.

- Roger Ailes

Together, Up, Grew, Television

The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.

- Roger Ailes

Business, News Business, News

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

- Roger Ailes

Earth, Understand, Only, Friendship

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