Ted Koppel Quotes

It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to lead NBC News. The power of the brand, the scale of the legacy, the depth of the talent all make this organisation truly great.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

I think celebrity is taking a heavy shot because of reality TV and the rise of Mr. Trump. I think people are becoming a little more leery, assuming that being a celebrated individual means you have some gravitas.

Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.

If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

I think around the league, I'm getting more respect. And that's great.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to 'The Standard.'

Greeley does the thinking for the whole West at $2 per year for his paper.

Every newspaper lives by appealing to a particular public. It can only go ahead of its times if it carries its public with it. Success in journalism depends on understanding the public.

The [London] Times has made many ministries.

A magazine, a publishing house, or a newspaper is not a personal affair; it is the affair of the party.

This man here [Walter Lippmann] is the greatest journalist in the world, and he's a friend of mine.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of New York Times.

Authority may be as much injured by words as by actions.

A lot of times, what people see is what they hear or what's on your Instagram.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.

It's hard to name a person who is unpopular who has influence.