All Ted Turner Quotes
- I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a… Business
- I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough. Hard
- If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster. Afraid
- It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil… All
- The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better. Better
- The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about. Any
- The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology. Derogatory
- There's nothing wrong with being fired. Fired
- To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. Airplane
- War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money. Been
- When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network. Action
- Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I… Away Half
- We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will… Big
- When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics,… Candidates
- Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite,… Finite
- I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes… Apart
- I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large… Best
- I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get… Attack
- I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry… Been
- I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type… Adequately
- If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated… Center
- If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons,… Arsenal
- Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver… Biggest
- The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty… Fifty
- Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society. Effect