I travel a lot. I'm on the move.
— Ted Turner
The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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.
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 fuels.
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.
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 sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
I see what keeps people young: work!
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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 years!
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 journalist and proud of it.
I wanted to better inform the world.
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.
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.
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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.
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
If I had any humility I would be perfect.
I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
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 rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.
I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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.
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, it would be the end of life on earth.
If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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, that it wasn't going to come from me.
I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
