Koppel Quotes

#1. When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam.

Michael Ramirez

#2. Koppel won an Emmy for that show. Miscavige took credit for it, saying, "I got Ted the Emmy." He even had a replica of an Emmy made and placed in the Officers Lounge at Gold Base. But he never went on television again.

Lawrence Wright

#3. Morrie," Koppel said, "that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?"
"You bet," Morrie whispered.

Mitch Albom

#4. But not enough about the extraordinary day-to-day lives the wives experienced behind the scenes.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#6. 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.

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#8. 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.

Ted Koppel

#9. 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.

Ted Koppel

#10. Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.

Lily Koppel

#11. Soon after launching Sputnik in 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik II with its passenger Laika ("Barker," also known as Little Curly), the Soviet space dog. She was a female stray found on the streets of Moscow (and those godless Soviets let her die in orbit).

Lily Koppel

#12. 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.

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#14. Where did all the creativity go?' she wondered aloud as she pondered the newly rediscovered story of her youth. 'If I was true to myself, would I have ended up living this ordinary life?

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#16. 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.

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#18. 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.

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#20. In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#22. 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

Ted Koppel

#23. 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.

Ted Koppel

#24. 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.

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#27. were, however, all consumed by a burning

Lily Koppel

#28. 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.

Ted Koppel

#29. 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.

Ted Koppel

#30. How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#33. Dodie could often be seen at the club, clutching a white terry-cloth towel in one hand, her cigarette holder in the other, as she pedaled away on one of the club's stationary bikes.

Lily Koppel

#34. We've all heard about space and landing on the moon, but somehow it's a very tom-boyish adventure. It's planting the flag on the moon by Neil Armstrong, and it has this very male-hero edge to it.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#36. 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.

Ted Koppel

#37. John looked handsome in the photo of him in his

Lily Koppel

#38. To live in books is cowardly
but people are not worth investigation.

Lily Koppel

#39. 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.

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#41. Read until my eyes ached
it was hardly important
but proof again that there is always an escape.

Lily Koppel

#42. America's space age was officially announced on April 9, 1959.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#44. 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.

Ted Koppel

#45. Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#47. Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.

Lily Koppel

#48. Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume had belonged to her in a previous life.

Lily Koppel

#49. 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.

Ted Koppel

#50. Apollo 17 would be the sixth and final flight to the Moon. In total, the American space program had taken the work of two and a half million people and had cost nearly $25 billion.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#52. 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.

Ted Koppel

#53. There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

Lily Koppel

#54. I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

Lily Koppel

#55. As the saying on the Northwest Coast still has it, "when the tide goes out, dinner is served.

Tom Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

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

Ted Koppel

#58. I have the necessary lack of tact.

Ted Koppel

#59. Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

Lily Koppel

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

Ted Koppel