Jim Lehrer Quotes
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Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12.
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I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.
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I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.
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I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
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I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.
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I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
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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.
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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.
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Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.
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The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
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I'm a journalist and that's what I do.
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Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.
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Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth.
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There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
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You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
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The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
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In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.
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If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.
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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.
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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.
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I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
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I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.
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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.
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I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.
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My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
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As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
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A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
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Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
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We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
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