Peter Jennings Quotes
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Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
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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?
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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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The truth of the matter is - and I'm always a bit reluctant to say this because people think you're a bit unfeeling. The truth of this, on 9/11, people who - myself and others - were so unbelievably focused on what was happening that we were, for many, many hours, I think, spared the agony of loss.
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On 9/11, those of us who do the jobs that I do, flew without a net for hour and hour and hour after end. And then you hope and pray that you've had the experience to be up to it. Because then you're editor, analyst, reporter, correspondent, ringmaster, the whole thing.
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Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
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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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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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Are we out of step with the administration because we do not comport completely to their political point of view?... So they criticize us for it. It goes with the territory, and if we get a groundswell we begin to look at ourselves.
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Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
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When I came to the states in the mid 1960s - 1964, 1964 - I didn't think I'd be here maybe a couple years, going to have a great experience in the United States and then go back to Canada. Well, here we are 40 years later.
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There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially - sorry it's a cliche - a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.
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We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.
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Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
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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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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
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I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
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I was so focused on all of that, that it took me many hours, until my kids called, ironically. My kids both called and just left a little message that they were OK. And I turned around and went - Oh, man that really hit me like a ton of bricks - But most of the time we were spared that agony for the time being.
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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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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 think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.