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

- Ted Koppel

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

- Ted Koppel

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…

- Ted Koppel

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

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

- Ted Koppel

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

- Ted Koppel

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

- Ted Koppel

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

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They sho…

- Ted Koppel