Roger Ailes Quotes

American - Businessman May 15, 1940 - May 18, 2017

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, React, Shifting, Charge

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

Fat, Want, Prove, Guy, Get, Working

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

Good, Smart, People, Pig, Blind, Trying

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

Home, Time, Hate, You, Lose, Run

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

Business, Money, Capitalism, Winning

'Vanity Fair' is a left-wing rag. Roger Ailes

Vanity, Fair, Left-Wing, Rag

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

Win, You, Know, Never, Trigger, Pull

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

Freedom, Religion, Losing, Speech, Press

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

I Am, Tough, Me, Think, Media, Simplify

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

View, Point Of View, Programming, Point

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

Nobody, House, Early, Wrong, Anything

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

Job, News, Fair, Cover, Accurately

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

Powerful, Watch, Throw, Press, Them

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

Job, Focus, Talent, People, Me, Need

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

Dumb, Him, Soft, Like, He, Spot

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

Good, Time, Food, Find, Kind, Never

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

Organization, Create, Citizenship, Run

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

Stars, Dancing, Like, Would

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

Fight, Bad, Run, Fast, Will, Got

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

Good, Myself, People, Me, Care, Thought

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

Limits, Know, Coach, Accomplish, Student

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

Time, Me, Saying, Things, Half, Humorous

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

Smart, People, News, Go, Watch, Pretty

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

Heart, Good, Man, Writing, Good Heart

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

America, Bad, Wrong, Same, How, CNN

I quit politics because I hated it. Roger Ailes

Politics, Quit, Hated, Because, I Quit

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