top of page
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Information quotes

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."

"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."

"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."

"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."

"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."

"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."

"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."

"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."
Explore more quotes by Jim Lehrer

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

"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."

"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."

"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."

"We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat."
bottom of page