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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. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#come #faith #four #great #great faith

I started as a print reporter. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#print #reporter #started

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

— Jim Lehrer

#i #men #mostly #old #used

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. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#asking #asking questions #expert #how #i

I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#another #ask #candidates #challenge #chance

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#around #city #country #go #i

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. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#bells #bells and whistles #go #people #places

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#covering #i #man #newspaper #politics

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#cuts #deficit #order #reduce #revenue

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#covered #gray #i #most #stories