Peter Jennings Thinking Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance 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.

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