Peter Jennings Quotes

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

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"... If you tailor your news viewing, as some people are now doing, 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.

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.

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.

Good evening. We begin tonight...

I don't think the public realizes how much soul-searching goes on in news organizations about what is the right thing to do.

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

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