Ted Koppel Quotes
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To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.
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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.
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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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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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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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What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
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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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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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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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Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.
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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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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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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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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.
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Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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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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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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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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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.
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Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?
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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
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Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with the, "Where is it going to happen? What's going to happen? When is it going to happen?" The other set of questions deals with, "What is it that our enemy, the terrorists, are trying to achieve?" What are they trying to induce us to do?
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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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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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It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.
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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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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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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.
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