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. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

  Jim Lehrer

  Hate, Rainbow, Soul

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

  Jim Lehrer

  Stories, Firsts, Opinion

  "Jim Lehrer is stepping aside for a dual-anchor format on PBS's 'NewsHour'" by Howard Kurtz, www.washingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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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 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

  Long, People, Democracy

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

  Jim Lehrer

  Soul, Risk, Nourishment

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• Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

  Jim Lehrer

  Caring, Fire, Journalism

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• I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction.
  Unfortunately, Roger has denied this and has led a full-court attack on my credibility

  Jim Lehrer

  Growth Hormones, Drug, Body

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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.

  Jim Lehrer

  Two, Together, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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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 I'm going to worry about, I'm sorry.

  Jim Lehrer

  Sorry, People, Worry

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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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.

  Jim Lehrer

  Views, Giving, Pieces

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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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.

  Jim Lehrer

  Technique, Answers, Matter

  "PBS's Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

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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.

  Jim Lehrer

  Important, Facts, Advocating

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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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.

  Jim Lehrer

  Kids, Eye, Boys

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• I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.

  Jim Lehrer

  Names, Trying, Negative

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• Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

  Jim Lehrer

  Years, Stories, Gray

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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

  Jim Lehrer

  Skills, People, President

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• There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

  Jim Lehrer

  Literature, Germs

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• No two people see things the same way.

  Jim Lehrer

  Two, People, Way

  "PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". Interview with Betsy Rothstein, thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

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

  Jim Lehrer

  Marine

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• You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

  Jim Lehrer

  Phones, Cells, Want

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• I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

  Jim Lehrer

  Literature, Journalism

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• There are very few really stark black and white stories.

  Jim Lehrer

  Black And White, Stories, Starks

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". "CJR Daily" with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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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.

  Jim Lehrer

  Views, Needs, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

  Jim Lehrer

  Funny, Stupid, Made

  "PBS's Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

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• 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

  Long, Kind, Debate

  "The GQ+A with Jim Lehrer". Interview with Luke Zaleski, www.gq.com. October 15, 2012.

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• 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 say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.

  Jim Lehrer

  Literature, Print, Reporters

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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