Peter Jennings Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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 an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.”
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“I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.”
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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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“I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.”
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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 think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling.”
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“I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.”
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“I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.”
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“I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.”
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“I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.”
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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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“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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“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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“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.”
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“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.”
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“There's no such thing as an independent person.”
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“The one thing that I have done really well in my life is be a father.”
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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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“Scholars will argue with each other about everything.”
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“I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.”
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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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“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.”
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“Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.”
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“Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.”
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“As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits”
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“Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?”
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“Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.”
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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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