Jim Lehrer Quotes

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Jim Lehrer

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 19, 1934

I started as a print reporter.

Jim Lehrer

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

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Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.

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Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

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As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

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I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

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The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.

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My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

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I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

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In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

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The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.

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I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

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There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

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The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

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I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

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In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

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If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

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In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

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