In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted KoppelYou can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
Ted KoppelIf 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 KoppelWell, 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 KoppelWhat Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
Ted KoppelPresident Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.
Ted Koppel