Jim Lehrer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.”

“I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.”

“If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.”

“There are very few really stark black and white stories.”

“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.”

“If 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 available.”

“Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.”

“People 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 ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.”

“Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.”