96 Quotes by Jim Lehrer

I’m not in the being-annoyed business.

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.

Those who know me know I won’t hesitate to turn around and point someone out.

Most of the gaffes I’ve made have not been funny – they’ve been stupid.

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

If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn’t telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don’t think there’s anything in between.

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.

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

As I say, I’m a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.