96 Quotes by Jim Lehrer

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

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

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

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

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 reporter or someone asking questions. I am not the story.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

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.