I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old,... by Jim Lehrer

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

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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.

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I'm not in the judgment part of journalism. by Jim Lehrer

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

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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'm a journalist and that's what I do. by Jim Lehrer

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

I'm in the reporting part of journalism. by Jim Lehrer

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

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I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds.... by Jim Lehrer

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

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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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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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Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going. by Jim Lehrer

Journalism is caring where the fire-engines are going.

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Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been s... by Jim Lehrer

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

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If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. by Jim Lehrer

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

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I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)

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.

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I am grateful my country forced me to serve my country. Not for my country's sake, but for my own, in that diverse company, I learned to be responsible for others. I learned to be dependent on others. I learned there was more to life than me, me, me, me.