Peter Jennings famous quotes

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.
-- Peter Jennings

#Quality #Adults #Born

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
-- Peter Jennings

#Writing #America #Wanted

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Giving #Advice

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Earth #Journalist

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.
-- Peter Jennings

#Scholar

I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.
-- Peter Jennings

#Cnn #Fans #Bigs

I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it.
-- Peter Jennings

#Eye #Thinking #Negative

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Political #Television

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Good Work #Mainstream

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
-- Peter Jennings

#Strong #Connections #Gone

I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
-- Peter Jennings

#Humor #Space #People

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
-- Peter Jennings

#Objectivity #Want #Littles

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
-- Peter Jennings

#Mean #Objectivity #People

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.
-- Peter Jennings

#Effort #Littles #Canada

There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
-- Peter Jennings

#Mean #Good Day #May

Jesse Marcel's unproven story was now primetime mythology. This remote New Mexico town had hit the jackpot. It didn't matter that there wasn't a shred of credible evidence to support the claim that a flying saucer crashed here. It didn't matter that there were no credible witnesses to alien bodies.
-- Peter Jennings

#Support #Flying #Mexico

We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
-- Peter Jennings

#Important #World #Bills

There's no such thing as an independent person.
-- Peter Jennings

#Independent #Persons

The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
-- Peter Jennings

#Father #Done #Life Is

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.
-- Peter Jennings

#Essentials #Connections #Politician

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
-- Peter Jennings

#Arguing #Scholar

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
-- Peter Jennings

#Conventional Wisdom

[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.
-- Peter Jennings

#Country #Secret #President

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.
-- Peter Jennings

#Believe #Resurrection #Certain

Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.
-- Peter Jennings

#Children #Members #Our Family

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
-- Peter Jennings

#Anchors #People

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Limits #Journalist

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Atheism #Way

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
-- Peter Jennings

#War #Vietnam #Firsts

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Wings #Organization

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
-- Peter Jennings

#Als #Firsts #Details

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
-- Peter Jennings

#Years #Empires #Execution

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #People #Cynical

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
-- Peter Jennings

#Labor Day #November #Labor

I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization of the world.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Important #Islam

Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.
-- Peter Jennings

#Debate #Moments #Particular

Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?
-- Peter Jennings

#Men #Issues #Feels

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Technology #People

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.
-- Peter Jennings

#Cancer #Survival #Diagnosis

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Views #May

The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.
-- Peter Jennings

#Risk #Drug #Sudden Death

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.
-- Peter Jennings

#Boys #Government #Might

I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.
-- Peter Jennings

#Thinking #Axes #Media

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
-- Peter Jennings

#People #Spirituality #Sensitive

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
-- Peter Jennings

#Needs #Sense Of Humor #Courteous

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
-- Peter Jennings

#Confused #Spirituality #Driven

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
-- Peter Jennings

#Couple #Long #Week