244 Quotes by Ted Turner

I believe in a reasonable amount of “right to bear arms”. But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I’m every other kind of power, but I’m not a nuclear power.

I didn’t care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you’ve got to slow down a bit.

Over-population is the ‘cause of drive-by shootings’ and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.

Life is like a B-movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it, but you don’t want to see it again.

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there’s no doubt in my mind but that they would’ve detonated it in New York.

There’s nothing wrong with being fired.

There are too many people, that’s why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff.

I’ve had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.