Ted Turner Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.”

“I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.”

“At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.”

“I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.”

“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 break these huge companies to pieces.”

“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 is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.”

“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.”

“When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.”

“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 first.”

“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 it in New York.”