Peter Jennings Quotes

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

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.

Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.

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

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

Patriotism is (like) loving your family whether it is good or bad, while always striving to make it better. Nationalism simply insists 'Hey my family is the best'.

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

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'.

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

There's no such thing as an independent person.

Canada join the United States? Where would young Canadians run off to for adventure? Where would Americans run to escape?

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

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

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

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.

I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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