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
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.
– Ted Koppel
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
– Ted Koppel
I have the necessary lack of tact.
– Ted Koppel
I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
– Ted Koppel
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
– Ted Koppel
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
People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.