Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes (2013)

Roger Eugene Ailes (May 15, 1940 – May 18, 2017) was the president of Fox News Channel and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. He was a media consultant for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, as well as Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign in 1989.

Quotes

• People don’t want to be informed, they want to feel informed.
  • https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/18/roger-ailes-transformed-american-politics-contact-sport/

• To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do you believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Non-charismatic people spend their lives auditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't doubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their mission.
  • You are the Message : Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are (1989)

• 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.
  • You are the Message : Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are (1989)

• They 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.
  • Kurtz, Howard (17 November 2010), "Fox News Chief Blasts NPR 'Nazis'", The Daily Beast, retrieved on 2011-02-10 
  • on NPR firing Juan Williams for remarks he made on Fox News about fearing airplane passengers in Muslim garb

• I want to see her legs.
  • http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fox-ailes-obituary-idUSKCN18E1VZ?il=0