Top 40 Peter Jennings Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Peter Jennings

2. “We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.”

— Peter Jennings

3. “Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment.”

— Peter Jennings

4. “There’s no such thing as an independent person.”

— Peter Jennings

5. “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.”

— Peter Jennings

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

— Peter Jennings

7. “As a journalist, one tends to think there’s nothing off limits.”

— Peter Jennings

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

— Peter Jennings

9. “I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.”

— Peter Jennings

10. “I’m a reporter. I’m not a scholar.”

— Peter Jennings

11. “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.”

— Peter Jennings

12. “The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November.”

— Peter Jennings

13. “I don’t think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.”

— Peter Jennings

14. “I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I’m just not sure who’s driving.”

— Peter Jennings

15. “Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.”

— Peter Jennings

16. “The risk of sudden death is miniscule, overstating this risk is not going to stop them from taking the drug.”

— Peter Jennings

17. “And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.”

— Peter Jennings

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

— Peter Jennings

19. “Don’t be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.”

— Peter Jennings

20. “Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.”

— Peter Jennings

21. “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.”

— Peter Jennings

22. “I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.”

— Peter Jennings

23. “I’ve always been very zealous about not invading other people’s private spaces.”

— Peter Jennings

24. “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.”

— Peter Jennings

25. “Have a sense of humor about life – you will need it. And be courteous.”

— Peter Jennings

26. “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

27. “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

28. “Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.”

— Peter Jennings

29. “I’m a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning.”

— Peter Jennings

30. “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

31. “Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He’s the first to admit it.”

— Peter Jennings

32. “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

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33. “I’ve always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.”

— Peter Jennings

34. “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.”

— Peter Jennings

35. “I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I’d listen to him even if he didn’t shout at people.”

— Peter Jennings

36. “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.”

— Peter Jennings

37. “I’m an immigrant and I’ve always wanted to write something about America.”

— Peter Jennings

38. “Scholars will argue with each other about everything.”

— Peter Jennings

39. “Do you think in many ways, sir, you’re the victim of circumstance now?”

— Peter Jennings

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

— Peter Jennings

41. “I’m a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.”

— Peter Jennings

42. “I think I am very mainstream – I’m committed to good works in my life.”

— Peter Jennings

43. “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.”

— Peter Jennings

44. “Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don’t.”

— Peter Jennings

45. “I don’t think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization.”

— Peter Jennings

46. “A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.”

— Peter Jennings

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

— Peter Jennings