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

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.

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.

People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

[But he was tripped up by a question posed by Lehrer on how he would handle the difficulties and uncertainties of the presidency. The presidency Lehrer said, is] 90 percent having to deal with the unexpected. ... crisis under fire.