Jim Lehrer quotes

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. (Jim Lehrer)
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.
Jim Lehrer
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
Jim Lehrer
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
Jim Lehrer
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.
Jim Lehrer
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
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.
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
Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
Jim Lehrer
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
Jim Lehrer
No two people see things the same way. (Jim Lehrer)
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
Jim Lehrer
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
Jim Lehrer
There are very few really stark black and white stories.
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
Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.
Jim Lehrer
I'm a journalist and that's what I do.
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
I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.
Jim Lehrer
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
Jim Lehrer
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)
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
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
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.
Jim Lehrer