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

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

Television and I grew up together.

- Roger Ailes

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

- Roger Ailes

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

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

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

- Roger Ailes

I quit politics because I hated it.

- Roger Ailes

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

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

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

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

- Roger Ailes

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

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

- Roger Ailes

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

- Roger Ailes

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

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

- Roger Ailes

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

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

- Roger Ailes

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