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.
Ted KoppelSet 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.
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 KoppelBeginning, 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.
Ted KoppelYou can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.
Ted KoppelLook, 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?
Ted Koppel