I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. — 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 context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I… — Jim Lehrer Copy Share
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
