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Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid. — Jim Lehrer

I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties. — Jim Lehrer

I'm in the reporting part of journalism. — Jim Lehrer

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

My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it. — Jim Lehrer

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

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

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous. — Jim Lehrer

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

A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do. — Jim Lehrer

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

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. — Jim Lehrer

Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out. — Jim Lehrer

I have no reason to lie and every reason not to. If I do lie, I will be prosecuted. — Jim Lehrer

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines. — Jim Lehrer

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything. — Jim Lehrer

Make no mistake: When I told Senator Mitchell that I injected Roger Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, I told the truth. — Jim Lehrer

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

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

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off. — Jim Lehrer

No two people see things the same way. — Jim Lehrer

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse. — Jim Lehrer

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts. — Jim Lehrer

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

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it. — Jim Lehrer

My conscience is clear. — Jim Lehrer

I'm not in the being-annoyed business. — Jim Lehrer

I started as a print reporter. — Jim Lehrer

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates. — Jim Lehrer

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

I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility. — Jim Lehrer

There are very few really stark black and white stories. — Jim Lehrer

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism. — Jim Lehrer

Not everyone can be relaxed or comfortable enough to seriously listen to the (debate or interview) answers. — Jim Lehrer

In television there are only about 12 people who do what I do. — Jim Lehrer

I'm a journalist and that's what I do. — Jim Lehrer

The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services. — Jim Lehrer

Let me be clear: Despite Roger Clemens' statements to the contrary, I never injected Roger Clemens, or anyone else, with lidocaine or B-12. — Jim Lehrer