Ted Koppel Quotes

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

Here is a guy who's had a stake driven through his heart. I mean, really nailed to the bottom of the coffin with a wooden stake, and a silver bullet through the forehead for good measure-and yet he keeps coming back.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

I have the necessary lack of tact.

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.