The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. Ted Koppel More Quotes by Ted Koppel More Quotes From Ted Koppel Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them. Ted Koppel oddsovercomingbelieve 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 medicineour-societystrong Set 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 Koppel goalsightmotivational It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia. Ted Koppel scrapbookingnostalgiaeasy There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend. Ted Koppel trendsfashionpeace Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards. Ted Koppel moralitypracticeinspiring Beginning, 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 Koppel perspectiveobjectivitypolitical You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead. Ted Koppel where-you-are-in-lifewhere-you-aredegrees To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage. Ted Koppel braverycouragegiving What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. Ted Koppel sinaimosessuggestions People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media. Ted Koppel mediajobspeople If 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 Koppel understandingignoranceteamwork Well, 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 Koppel nsatwofall Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time. Ted Koppel importantmatterinspirational President 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 morningnightpeople Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judeo-Christian on one side and the Islamic world on the other. That's exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we start with thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it. Ted Koppel islamicchristianthinking There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common Ted Koppel territoryspecialcommon In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. Ted Koppel anchormanpresidentkings Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated. Ted Koppel peopleinterestingthinking 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 Koppel threatterrorismlong
