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.
Ted KoppelThe responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
Ted KoppelThere 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 KoppelYou can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
Ted KoppelPeople shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
Ted Koppel