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The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.
Peter Jennings
Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.
Peter Jennings
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
There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
Peter Jennings
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
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"
Peter Jennings
I think sometimes in the establishment that there are a lot of people in America who resent the establishment, who resent the elite universities, who resent the large corporations and with some good reason this year - as we discovered - and who feel and who have felt prior to the advent of this sort of a great involvement of talk radio that they haven't had place to debate or even vent. And so, is Rush a deeply serious analyst and commentator? In some respects. Is he a showman as well? I think the answer is yes. But I'd never argue that he doesn't have place on the menu.
Peter Jennings
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.
Peter Jennings
I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective," Jennings said. Jennings said that everyone - even journalists - have points of view through which they filter their perception of the news. It could be race, sex or income. But, he said, reporters are ideally trained to be as objective as possible. "And when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be fair.
Peter Jennings
Seems like yesterday seems like forever -- all at the same time.
Peter Jennings
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.
Peter Jennings
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.
Peter Jennings
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.
Peter Jennings
[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
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.
Peter Jennings
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Peter Jennings
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
A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.
Peter Jennings
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
Peter Jennings
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
I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.
Peter Jennings
Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
Peter Jennings
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