Ted Turner Quotes
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
Turner, Ted. Address at the Nuclear Threat Initiative Conference. Washington D.C., 2002.
In the wake of the Tonkin Gulf incident, the United States bombed and destroyed North Vietnam naval installations:
Fischer was in the midst of a parliamentary debate and the President had ruled against him on a procedural matter.
Referring to John Foster Dulles:
In a speech at Temple University, the Canadian Prime Minister called for a halt in of the bombing in Vietnam. The President was angered.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Robert Edward Turner III is an American media proprietor, producer, and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, which later became TBS.
