Jim Lehrer Stories Quotations

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

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.

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