William Randolph Hearst

I have no regrets.

The newspaper is the greatest school in the world.

I am a man of contradictions.

I believe in the power of the individual.

I like to be in control.

I am a builder, not a destroyer.

I have always been fascinated by power.

I am a man of action.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the abuse of that right.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.

You can crush a man with journalism.

I am against Prohibition because it has set the cause of temperence back twenty years; because it has substituted an ineffective campaign of force for an effective campaign of education; because it has replaced comparatively uninjurious light wines and beers with the worst kind of hard liquor and bad liquor; because it has increased drinking not only among men but has extended drinking to women and even children.

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

I don’t care what they say about me as long as they spell my name right.