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.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
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