I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. — Jim Lehrer Copy Share Image
