Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CMwas a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth29 July 1938
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
believes clinton public quite strongly
Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
cooler focus hard tend worse
The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure.
forever seems
Seems like yesterday; seems like forever -- all at the same time.
almost cope facts learn life living million none sure
Almost 10 million Americans are living with cancer. I am sure I will learn from them how to cope with the facts of life that none of us anticipated,
classic duke ladies
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to play for you the Duke Ellington classic 'Take the Train' eh?
although america certainly economic enjoyed fourth given hoped left running thanks thursday virtually
I was not running away from anything when I left Canada. ... I didn't come to America for economic opportunity, although I have certainly enjoyed it. But every fourth Thursday of November, I have given thanks ... because America has been virtually everything I hoped it would be.
awe childlike kept
because he kept a childlike sense of awe about the world.
deeply offended
I'm deeply offended by how little Americans know about their country.
good occur thoughts
No. I write down thoughts as they occur to me. You never know when you're going to need a good idea.
dreadful foolish
It was a dreadful mistake, a foolish experiment,
thinking important islam
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.
eye thinking negative
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.
thinking good-work mainstream
I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
strong connections gone
I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.