Zitat des Tages von Jim Lehrer:
I'm in the reporting part of journalism.
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
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.
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.
There are very few really stark black and white stories.
Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.
My conscience is clear.
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.
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'm a journalist and that's what I do.
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.
A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.
We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.
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.
Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
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.
The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.
My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
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.
My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.
I started as a print reporter.
I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
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.
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.
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 a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
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.
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.