Ted Koppel Quotes
You, Dan, have been the prototype of the television correspondent, who must be where the story is. 
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He and I joked the last time I went up to visit just a few days ago that between the two of us we'd put in 83 years at ABC News. ... He was a warm and loving and surprisingly sentimental man.
- Ted Koppel
[And 2000's close campaign has put both candidates in straitjackets, he said.] I think it's kind of sad that we've come to a point now that presidential candidates when they get this close to the election have to be so careful about what they say, ... They have to weigh each syllable so carefully that the thought of delivering an unscripted line is anathema to them, they feel as though they're walking through a mine field and they cannot afford to tick anybody off between now and Election Day.
- Ted Koppel