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Jim Lehrer Quotes

1934–2020

James Charles Lehrer (/ˈlɛərə/) (19 May 1934 – 23 January 2020) was an American journalist and novelist, the executive editor and a news anchor for the PBS NewsHour on PBS, and a debate moderator during U.S. presidential election campaigns. He authored numerous fiction and non-fiction books that drew upon his experience as a newsman, along with his interests in history and politics.

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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.

I’m Jim Lehrer. Terrorists used hijacked airliners to kill Americans on this September 11, 2001 … another day of infamy for the United States of America.

What I took away and have taken away — and it still overrides everything that I have done in journalism since — what the Kennedy assassination did for me was forever keep me aware of the fragility of everything, that, on any given moment, something could happen.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jim Lehrer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.