Quotes by Jim Lehrer

Jim Lehrer

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.

Ideas

Purpose

Two

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

People

President

Skills

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

Advocating

Facts

Important

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.

Giving

Pieces

Views

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

Blue

Purple

Wine

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice – a civic responsibility.

Believe

Presidential

Responsibility

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

Marine

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.

Names

Negative

Trying

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

Literature

Together

Two

I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.

Lying

No Reason

Reason

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Advocating

Annoyed

Answers

Asking Questions

Balls

Being Annoyed

Believe

Bells

Black And White

Blue

Body

Boys

Brian

Caring

Cells

Clear

Covering

Debate

Democracy

Different

Drug

Enjoy

Eye

Facts

Fire

Firsts

Funny

Games

Gatekeepers

Germs

Giving

Grateful

Gray

Growth Hormones

Hate

Helping

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Iraq

Journalism

Journalist

Judgment

Kids

Kind

Know Me

Let Me

Life Is Like

Literature

Long

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Quotes by Jim Lehrer

Jim Lehrer

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.

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

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

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.

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice – a civic responsibility.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

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.

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 no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted.

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