top of page
"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Power quotes

"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
Explore more quotes by Jim Lehrer

"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."

"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."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"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."
bottom of page