“My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present rea...” — Ted Koppel Quote

“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.”

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

“I have the necessary lack of tact.”

“Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think accurately presenting a trans character means not presenting them as perfect - I think there's been a pressure to do this with trans characters. They can have no flaws because they must represent the entire trans community.”

“On American sets, you work 12-, 14-, 16-hour days sometimes. All that volume over a short course of time can actually be less conducive to telling a story accurately.”

“The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.”

“Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.”

“Because journalists of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty - the former broadcast into Eastern Europe, the latter into the Soviet Union - accurately depicted daily life in communist Europe, in the local languages, using native journalists, millions of people tuned in to them.”