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Ted KoppelIn the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted KoppelMy 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 KoppelWhat Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
Ted KoppelThey 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 KoppelThe 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 Koppel