Jim LehrerMy Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.377Life
Jim LehrerMy own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been. ✨ Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Jour… ▶312Life
Jim LehrerAs 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 on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenogra… ▶324Truth
Jim LehrerJournalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.313Reading
Jim LehrerYou want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.335Life
Jim LehrerI'm a journalist and that's what I do. ✨ Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism. Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.369Death
Jim LehrerThere'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. ✨ PBS… ▶315Reflection
Jim LehrerI'm in the reporting part of journalism. ✨ Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism. Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.… ▶272Truth
Jim LehrerThe shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story. ✨ Jim Lehrer is stepping aside for a dual-anchor format on PBS's 'NewsHour' by Ho… ▶327Humor
Jim LehrerI 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 haircut… ▶305Death
Jim LehrerI 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.349Love
Jim LehrerThere are very few really stark black and white stories. ✨ Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism. CJR Daily with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.or… ▶275Politics
Jim LehrerI 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 on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and St… ▶243HopeReading
Jim LehrerI'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. <… ▶298Humor
Jim LehrerIf 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 … ▶277Humanity
Jim LehrerI'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody. ✨ Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism. Inter… ▶268PoliticsThought
Jim LehrerI'm not in the judgment part of journalism. ✨ Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism. Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 20… ▶2810Philosophy
Jim LehrerIf people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not availabl… ▶175Humanity
Jim LehrerTake 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… ▶175ThoughtTime
Jim LehrerPeople can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different … ▶132HumanityLove
Jim LehrerPeople 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 Le… ▶155Humanity
Jim LehrerI believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.134Humanity
Jim LehrerIf we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. ✨ The GQ+A with Jim Lehrer. Interview With Luke Zaleski, www.gq.com. October 15, 2012.138Death
