75 Quotes by Ted Koppel

What you're talking about is two very different operations. I don't want there to be hint of a suggestion that one operation is better than the other. But in the final analysis, this was a better fit.

He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man.

I think there is a tendency on the part of some of the cable networks to be in a desperate race to be first with the obvious. Can you imagine going to any one of those people and saying, 'Give us three hours of prime time'? It wouldn't happen.

My mother was born in the year 1899 and I was sitting there on New Year's Day in 1999 saying, 'God, I wish my grandfather had written a book about life in his time,' ... And then I thought, well, maybe I'll try and do it, and initially I sat down to do it more for the family than anything else.

The 10 of us are enormously excited to be at a place that wants nothing more than to produce the kind of television journalism that focuses on issues that matter to the largest number of people. We look forward to creating quality programming that provides the in-depth information for which Discovery Channel is known.

Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,

You have lived up to every syllable of that commitment and I thank you.

There is nothing precipitous about this, ... It's time to give a new bunch a crack at this.

Even in his last days, he still filled a room.