See we're gonna take the news and put it on the satellite, and then we're gonna beam it down to Russia, and we're gonna bring world peace and we're gonna get rich in the process! Thank you very much.
CNN launch speech, 1980 We won't sign off till the end of the world - and we'll cover that live.
Launch speech
I've tried to make wars look bad on CNN. Local media try to make wars very patriotic.
During war in former Yugoslavia, 1995
If I died tomorrow, you know what my tombstone's gonna say? It'll say "He never got a major network".
After unsuccessful stalking of NBC and CBS, 1995.
[Murdoch]'s a schlockmeister. We're gonna squash Rupert like a bug.
After launch of Fox News, 1996
It is true that I am a low mean snake. But you could walk beneath me wearing a top hat.
Murdoch replies, quoting Disraeli, 1997
What's happening is a tragedy. He came close to having [Britain] under his thumb. Rupert's idea of a better world is a world that's better for Rupert. I'd like to get him in the ring. I'll get the gloves out and face him.
At CNN launch in London, 1997
The phrase I used was the former leader of the German Reich.
When asked to confirm that he'd compared Mr Murdoch to Hitler, 1997
