Ted Turner

“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'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.”

“My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.”

“I wanted to better inform the world.”

“When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.”

“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.”

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

“If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.”

“The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.”

“I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.”

“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 like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.”

“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.”

“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 didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.”

“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.”

“All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.”

“Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.”

“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.”

“If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.”