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.
Interpretation
Informed citizens are essential for a functioning democracy, regardless of how they obtain their knowledge.
Jim Lehrer's quote emphasizes the importance of an informed electorate in maintaining a healthy democracy. He expresses that the method by which individuals acquire information is less significant than ensuring they are conscious and educated participants in the democratic process, highlighting his own unique approach to disseminating this information with a sense of gratitude for his ability to contribute.
In practice
In a speech advocating for voter education initiatives.
Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.
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.
In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several states, a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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