“Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In ...” — 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.”

“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.”

“People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.”

“I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.”

“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.”

“My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.”

“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.”

“In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.”

“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”

“If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.”

“We believe that a civilised society can be measured by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable members and that being impatient about poverty is therefore simply the default position for modern progressive Conservatives.”

“Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.”