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

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

From Jim Lehrer

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

From 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.

From Jim Lehrer

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

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

From Jim Lehrer

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

From Jim Lehrer

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

From Jim Lehrer

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

From Jim Lehrer

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.

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