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

“If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.”

“I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.”

“The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.”

“It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war.”

“In Washington, there is a way to have disagreements and debates, which is so healthy, but a way to be friends at the end of the day, which I believe is the essence of America.”

“Polemical debates happen all the time in France.”