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Ted Koppel Quotes:

Ted Koppel quotes

Ocupation: Broadcaster

Life: b. February 8, 1940

Birthday: February 8

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Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

Topics: Believe, Odds, Overcoming, Against All Odds

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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

source: - Ted Koppel's Commencement Address at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, www.crisismagazine.com. February 1, 1988.

Topics: Strong, Medicine, Our Society, Reproach

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

Topics: Scrapbooking, Nostalgia, Easy

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

Topics: Inspiring, Practice, Morality, Ethical Behavior

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

Topics: Jobs, Media, People, Mass Media

A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow.

Topics: Blow, Opportunity, Years, Small Groups, Regime Change

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.

Topics: Inspirational, Important, Matter, Precedence

Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

Topics: Motivational, Sight, Goal

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

Topics: Anchorman, Kings, President, Jester

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

Topics: Degrees, Where You Are, Where You Are In Life

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

Topics: Jobs, Responsibility, Feels

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Topics: Teamwork, Ignorance, Understanding, Expertise

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.

Topics: Loss, Perspective, Pay

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

Topics: History, Tools, Politician

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

Topics: Fashion, Inner Peace, Trends, Moral Compass

I have the necessary lack of tact.

Topics: Tact

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

Topics: Years, Ideas, Npr, Brilliant Ideas

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

Topics: Reality, People, Enough

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page

Topics: New York, Pages, Fields, Forums, New York Times

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

Topics: Special, Territory, Common

What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.

Topics: Suggestions, Moses, Sinai

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

Topics: Courage, Giving, Despair

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

Topics: Nice, Say Anything

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.

Topics: Objectivity, Perspective, Political, Madoff, Political Spectrum

Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judeo-Christian on one side and the Islamic world on the other. That's exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we start with thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it.

source: - Source: www.nbcnews.com

Topics: Christian, Islamic, Thinking

Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated.

source: - Source: www.nbcnews.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Interesting

Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it.

source: - Source: www.nbcnews.com

Topics: Fall, Nsa, Two, Hacked

President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

source: - "The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis". Interview with Sarah Goldstein, www.gq.com. November 3, 2009.

Topics: Morning, Night, People, President Carter

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

source: - "Michael McCaul, Barton Gellman, Ted Koppel, Claire McCaskill, Anu Bhagwati, Steve King, Bill Richardson, David Brooks, David Ignatius, Ana Navarro". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 11, 2013.

Topics: Strong, Weapons, Terrorism

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

Topics: Long, Terrorism, Threat, Human History

The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.

source: - Source: www.nbcnews.com

Topics: Perth, Explosives

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