Jim Lehrer quotes and sayings
I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
Jim Lehrer quotes
- I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
- 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.
- I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
- 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.