Ted Koppel Quotes

#1. Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it.

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#2. They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.

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#3. 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.

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

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#5. Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

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#6. 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.

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#7. What Moses brought down from Mt Siniai were not ten suggestions. They are Commandments

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#8. These days, NORAD's peak period of public visibility is at Christmastime when it tracks the course of Santa and his sleigh.

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#9. 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.

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

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#11. 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.

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

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

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#14. I have the necessary lack of tact.

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

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

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#17. 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.

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

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

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

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

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#24. 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.

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#25. But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.

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#26. Siemens had to go to every deployment of their software worldwide and change the password. Getting

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#27. I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

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#28. Neighborliness is more than a slogan here; it is, as it has always been, an essential element of self-preservation in a challenging environment. The

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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

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#32. It is precisely among young, educated radicals, warns Austin, that a new generation of cyber warriors will be recruited.

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#33. 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.

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#34. 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.

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

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

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