A biography for Ted Turnerhasn’t been written yet.
“If I had any humility I would be perfect.”
“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.”
“The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.”
“The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.”
“I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.”
“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.”
“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 love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.”
“To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.”
“I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.”
“If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.”
“I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.”
“I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.”