Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
- Ted Koppel Quote

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
- Ted Koppel Quote

I have the necessary lack of tact.
- Ted Koppel Quote

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
- Ted Koppel Quote

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
- Ted Koppel Quote

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
- Ted Koppel Quote

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
- Ted Koppel Quote

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
- Ted Koppel Quote

There 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 Koppel Quote