Quotes By Jim Lehrer

My conscience is clear.

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope.

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

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

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

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

I 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.

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.

No two people see things the same way.

There'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.

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

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

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

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

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

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

Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.

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.