96 Quotes by Jim Lehrer

I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left.

I am now finding more and more journalists saying, 'It has taken a tragedy of enormous proportions, but maybe, maybe we are returning to our roots,' and those roots are in the business of information, not entertainment,

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

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

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

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.

No two people see things the same way.

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.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.