Latest Ted Koppel Quotes from Interviews

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• And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

  Ted Koppel

  Long, Terrorism, Threat

• Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

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  Strong, Weapons, Terrorism

  "Michael McCaul, Barton Gellman, Ted Koppel, Claire McCaskill, Anu Bhagwati, Steve King, Bill Richardson, David Brooks, David Ignatius, Ana Navarro". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 11, 2013.

• Look, fundamentally there are two sets of questions that apply in the war against terrorism. The one set of questions deals with the, "Where is it going to happen? What's going to happen? When is it going to happen?" The other set of questions deals with, "What is it that our enemy, the terrorists, are trying to achieve?" What are they trying to induce us to do?

  Ted Koppel

  War, Two, Enemy

• President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

  Ted Koppel

  Morning, Night, People

  "The Wire Q&A: Ted Koppel Remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis". Interview with Sarah Goldstein, www.gq.com. November 3, 2009.

• Going after ISIS, it's beautiful, I like it.

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  Beautiful, Isis

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• Well, Keith Alexander, the former director of the NSA wants to say every company in the United States falls under one of two categories, those that have been hacked and those that don't yet know it.

  Ted Koppel

  Fall, Nsa, Two

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• The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.

  Ted Koppel

  Past, Australia, People

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• Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judeo-Christian on one side and the Islamic world on the other. That's exactly what Trump is doing for them. I think it's time we start with thinking about what ISIS wants and then not doing it.

  Ted Koppel

  Christian, Islamic, Thinking

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• Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people out there. All the people who have been energized by the Trump campaign are going to be very, very angry folk if they think that Trump is not well treated.

  Ted Koppel

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.

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  Thinking, Isis, Interviews

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• They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is.

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  Dirty, Oxygen, Giving

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