Jim Lehrer Quotes

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Jim Lehrer

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 19, 1934

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

Jim Lehrer

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Jim Lehrer

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

Jim Lehrer

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

Jim Lehrer

I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.

Jim Lehrer

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Jim Lehrer

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

Jim Lehrer

No two people see things the same way.

Jim Lehrer

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

Jim Lehrer

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

Jim Lehrer

People can say anything they want to. If they don't want to get the news from me, get it from somebody else. It's not something I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

Jim Lehrer

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

Jim Lehrer

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

Jim Lehrer

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

Jim Lehrer

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

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I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

Jim Lehrer

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Jim Lehrer

I'm an expert on the NewsHour and it isn't how I practice journalism. I am not involved in the story. I serve only as a reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

Jim Lehrer

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

Jim Lehrer