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.
Ted KoppelThe responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
Ted KoppelIn the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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 Koppel