Ted Koppel

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

— Ted Koppel

“the wealthy tend to find their own solutions.”

— Ted Koppel

“capability is reason enough for concern,”

— Ted Koppel

I have the necessary lack of tact.

— Ted Koppel

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

— Ted Koppel

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

— Ted Koppel

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

— Ted Koppel

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.

— Ted Koppel

“It’s not easy maintaining a cynical outlook in the face of what appears to be a thoroughly charitable mindset,”

— Ted Koppel

“If you can break key transmission lines, said Clarke, you can produce cascading, potentially catastrophic outages.”

— Ted Koppel

“There’s plenty of people that understand what needs to be done. It’s policy and it’s money” standing in the way.”

— Ted Koppel

“How overburdened civic organizations would respond, to say nothing of individual citizens, is unknowable.”

— Ted Koppel

“North Korea, which straddles categories: a nation-state with the instincts of a terrorist organization.”

— Ted Koppel

“smaller companies with lean profit margins are simply not inclined to spend a great deal on cybersecurity.”

— Ted Koppel

“the system is not designed to generate the most rigorous standards. Only”

— Ted Koppel

“Conflicting risk assessments among our national leaders and foremost experts will become a recurring theme.”

— Ted Koppel

“if nine of the country’s most critical substations were knocked out at the same time, it could cause a blackout encompassing most…

— Ted Koppel

“The majority who believed that power outages are limited in duration, that help always arrives from beyond the edge of darkness, is…

— Ted Koppel

“I think that within six months, if things weren’t straightened out adequately to have something besides anarchy, somebody’s going to show up…

— Ted Koppel

“Would-be hackers, operating on what is sometimes referred to as the “Sneakernet,” can introduce their malware, their viral programs, by way of…

— Ted Koppel

Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop…

— Ted Koppel

“What about independent actors using cyberattacks to knock out one of our power grids? Are we at that point yet? “Simple answer,”…

— Ted Koppel

“Not only would he and his ranch hands survive a cyberattack on the electric power grid that serves Wyoming, they would barely…

— Ted Koppel

“FERC is merely enforcing regulations that it may have proposed but which the industry itself has modified to meet its own interests.…

— Ted Koppel

The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone…

— Ted Koppel

“We have come to know how nuclear weapons can destroy societies and human civilization. We have not yet begun to understand how…

— Ted Koppel

“This tension has resulted, in the electric power industry, in a high-stakes duel between corporations and government regulators, the consequences of which…

— Ted Koppel

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show…

— Ted Koppel

Every single of us is going to be saying, "Thank God, finally, an interesting convention." But you're right about all those people…

— Ted Koppel

“To just assume, however, that the underpopulated rural regions of the United States are inclined or even able to absorb tens or…

— Ted Koppel

“There are emergency preparedness plans in place for earthquakes and hurricanes, heat waves and ice storms. There are plans for power outages…

— Ted Koppel

“One of the imponderables in our system of government is how rapidly and easily secretaries of state, defense, and treasury, high-ranking military…

— Ted Koppel

“In successive State of the Union addresses President Obama has warned of the danger of cyberattacks on our infrastructure. Government is adapting…

— Ted Koppel

“With adversaries’ malware in the National Grid, the nation has little or no chance of withstanding a major cyberattack on the North…

— Ted Koppel

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

— Ted Koppel

“The world is locked into a state of cyber dependency”

— Ted Koppel

“That physical orderliness would be an early indicator of the church’s own structure. It”

— Ted Koppel

“(Several nation-states, most prominently the Russians and the Chinese, have already spent years conducting just such reconnaissance.)”

— Ted Koppel

Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

— Ted Koppel

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

— Ted Koppel