Ted Turner
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.
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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'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 my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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.
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.
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.
A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.Collection: Nwo
If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.Collection: Sex
Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.Collection: Business
Struggling hard to achieve something is the most fun I get.Collection: Fun
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.Collection: People
Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.Collection: Christian
The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.Collection: Success
Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.Collection: Grandchildren
There's a fine line between being colorful and being an asshole, and I hope I'm still just colorful.Collection: Lines
Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick, feeding the multitudes bread and fish or anything else, except maybe the walking on water. But when he got crucified, that gave him his big start.Collection: Jesus
To succeed you have to be innovative.Collection: Succeed
I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.Collection: Thinking
Once you decide to do something, and you're pretty sure you're right, then you gotta go ahead and do it. Because if you piddle around, somebody else will beat you to it.Collection: Beats
I've got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.Collection: Bullshit
Christians are losers.Collection: Christian
There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.Collection: Conspiracy
It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.Collection: Stupid
Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.Collection: Lynching
I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.Collection: Children
I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.Collection: Climbing
I was cable when cable wasn't cool.Collection: Television
I'm sure God, wherever he is, wants to see us get along with one another and love one another.Collection: And Love
I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.Collection: Smart
I like something with 'vice' in it.Collection: Vices
The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.Collection: Suicide
If you think you're a second-class citizen, you are.Collection: Life
When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?Collection: August
Where's the upside in opening your mouth?Collection: Mouths
The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.Collection: People
It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.Collection: Writing
The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.Collection: Mistake
Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.Collection: Failure
CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits in his office and smokes marijuana.Collection: Weed
Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.Collection: Men
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 them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news you get is a day old. You can get it off the Internet instantaneously for a fraction of the cost.Collection: Crazy
Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.Collection: Goal
John is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.Collection: Responsibility
Nuclear war would really set back cable.Collection: Funny
I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.Collection: Sports