History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Quote by Ted Koppel

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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the...

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the...

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the...

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the...

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not...

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not...

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless...

Now that he has changed the weather, Lion and lamb can vote together. God bless...

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words,...

Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words,...

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability,...

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability,...

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art...

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art...

Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of...

Control your time. If you're working off your in-box, you're working off the priorities of...

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom...

I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom...

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and...

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and...

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather...

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather...