Ted Turner
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“I am anti-war, anti-poverty, anti-AIDS, anti-hunger, anti-hate, and I am pro-UN, pro-freedom, pro-competition, pro-democracy, pro-woman and pro-choice.”

CNN founder Ted Turner at a pro-abortion rally held in Washington, D.C. on April 25 and shown live on C-SPAN
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2004/nq20040510.asp

 





"Even with our $500 billion military budget, we can’t win in Iraq. We’re being beaten by insurgents who don’t even have any tanks, they don’t have a headquarters, they don’t have a Pentagon....I think that they’re patriots, and that they don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we’d be doing the same thing: we’d be bombing them, too. Nobody wants to be invaded."

 

— CNN founder Ted Turner on PBS’s Charlie Rose, April 1.
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/2008/nq20080407.asp





"We spent $87 billion to blow Iraq up and then we spent another $87 billion to put it back together, and all to get one man and we still haven't got him," Turner said. "Talk about a failure."


Atlanta Journal Constitution
Turner not optimistic about world's future

http://ajc.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=&urlID=7717861&fb=Y&partnerID=552




"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."

 

The Guardian UK

Tuesday June 18, 2002

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,739466,00.html

 




Below are excerpts from stories in today’s Providence Journal and Brown Daily Herald about Turner’s comments last night at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

 

Asked about plans for a "Star Wars" defense system to shoot down ballistic missiles, Turner said, "I think it would be a lot more cost effective to negotiate a treaty" with nations possessing nuclear weapons. "It's just more and more expensive all the time when we need to use the money for education, and health care and improving the human condition. I don't believe people should kill each other or hurt each other. I just think it's stupid and it's not civilized."

 

Of the 19 men who hijacked the planes that hit the towers, he said, "I think they were brave at the very least." He asked for a show of hands of people who would act as suicide bombers for their country and got none.

 

Turner said that people in developed nations must adopt a global outlook and help those in developing nations. "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," he  said.

 

February 12, 2002

MediaResearch.org

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20020212_extra.asp

 



 

“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....I think they [the 19 hijackers] were brave at the very least.”

 

February 11, 2002 remarks at Brown University