Peter Jennings Quotes
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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.
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Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.
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Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
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I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
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Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.
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There's no such thing as an independent person.
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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.
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Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
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Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
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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.
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I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
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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.
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I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
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Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
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We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.
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Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.
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Canada join the United States? Where would young Canadians run off to for adventure? Where would Americans run to escape?
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There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
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Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
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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.
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
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I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
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I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.
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I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.
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The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
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The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.
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[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.
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Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.
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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
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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.
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