Good evening. We begin tonight... — 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."

"I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didnt learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, thats it."

"I dont think the public realizes how much soul-searching goes on in news organizations about what is the right thing to do."

"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 dont subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially — sorry its a cliche — a rough draft of history. Some days its reassuring, some days its absolutely destructive."

"Theres a whole industry of conservatives saying, "Ah, its those damn liberals," and a whole group of liberals saying, "Its 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 youre going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong."

"Im 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 dont think we can be fully objective, to be fair."