Guess quote

Jim Lehrer [1934-0] American

Rank: 105
Journalist

Quote	Tags	Rank
There are very few really stark black and white stories.		101
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.	Truth	102
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.		103
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.	Anger	104
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.		105
I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.		106
I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.		107
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.		108
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.		109
In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.		110
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.		111
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.		112
I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.		113
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.		114
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.		115
I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.		116
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.		117
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.		118
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.		119
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.		120
If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.		121
If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.		122
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.		123
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.		124
Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.		125
People 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.		126
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.		201
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.		202
Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.		203
I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.		204
I'm in the reporting part of journalism.		205
I'm a journalist and that's what I do.		206
I started as a print reporter.		207
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.	Intelligence	208
My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.		209
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.		210
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.		211
In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do.		212
The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator.		213
No two people see things the same way.		214
Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.		215
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.		216
I'm not in the being-annoyed business.		217
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.		218
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.		219
One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.		220
My conscience is clear.		221
Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.		222
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.	Sad	223
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.		224

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