Top 50 Quotes by Jim Lehrer

About Jim Lehrer

These are some quotes by American author Jim Lehrer Journalist, who was born on May 19, 1934.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

Jim Lehrer

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.

Jim Lehrer

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

Jim Lehrer

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.

Jim Lehrer

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

As 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

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 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

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

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

Jim Lehrer

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

Jim Lehrer

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.

Jim Lehrer

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

Jim Lehrer

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