Top 66 Roger Ailes Quotes
#1. They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.
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#2. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I think I have a good eye for talent. I think I'm smart enough to figure out what the mission is and achieve it. I achieve it by hiring good people.
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#7. Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.
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#8. I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.
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#9. If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.
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#10. If you're running far behind in the polls and you decide to use comparative advertising, you have to be able to explain to the people why the incumbent shouldn't have then ob.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.
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#15. I'm very confident in the management team, very confident in the on-air people. That's the whole secret to everything. It's having people who love to work where they're working and want to win.
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#16. There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.
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#17. 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 can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.
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#18. It also has to do with how you look and how you sound. If you look like a mean SOB who's putting the other person down, that's different than if you're inquiring about the process they go through to make a decision on behalf of the public.
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#19. 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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#20. I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.
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#22. Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.
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#23. 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 already made it, and it's usually the bad one.
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#24. Every other network has given all their shows to liberals. We are the balance.
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#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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.
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#28. I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
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#29. I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.
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#30. 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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#31. When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.
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#32. An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.
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#33. I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.
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#34. It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.
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#35. I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.
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#36. To be successful, you've got to get the kind of torque that's created by a push and a pull.
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#37. 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 their editor is going to like and that's going to further their careers, they're going to give you more ink and cover you.
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#38. When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.
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#39. We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.
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#40. 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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#41. There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it; it's not worth it.
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#42. Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.
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#43. I hired Sarah Palin because she was hot and got ratings.
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#44. Just because someone thinks he is being attacked by the media doesn't mean he is. Many times the media actually is being fair, and they're attacking for good reason.
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#45. The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.
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#46. I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.
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#47. 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 easier to beat.
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#48. 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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#49. 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 job.
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#50. People always describe my successes in life. My successes in life tend to be personal, not career.
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#51. Anybody's position on an issue, anything they've said about an issue, and any way they've voted on an issue is fair game. You have every right to question that and go after it aggressively.
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#52. You can get people the qualifications; But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
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#53. Taking on the media is something I would never tell a candidate to do. I'd advise him what I would do in that circumstance, but that's about it.
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#54. You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
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#55. I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.
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#56. The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face al Qaeda.
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#57. You cover the bad news about America. You do. But you don't get up in the morning hating your country. And so, until somebody shows me lines at the border trying to get out, I think there's some good news.
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#58. I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
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#59. Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.
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#61. In general, I think man-on-the- street ads and endorsement spots are having less and less effect on people. The electorate's getting very sophisticated, and they want to make their own judgments.
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#62. You can't sell a book in America if you don't dump on Bush. That's the cheapest shot in the world. You cannot get an advance, and you can't sell a book because the publishers are all people who hate Bush and hate Republicans.
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#63. Truth is whatever people will believe.
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#64. CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
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#65. As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away.
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