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
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
Ive traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and its a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and theyre tiny. Theyre tiny not only in size but also in scope. – Jim Lehrer
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960s. – Jim Lehrer
If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, thats fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldnt! They shouldnt read my work! – Joyce Maynard