Jim Lehrer Quotes
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Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line.…
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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…
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My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
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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…
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I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.
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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 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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I'm a journalist and that's what I do.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.
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Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
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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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I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.
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If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.
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I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
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Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
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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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