Bob Schieffer quotes - page 2

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy? (Bob Schieffer)
We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different. View quote
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There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be. View quote
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people. View quote
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The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better. View quote
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I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera. View quote
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We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise. View quote
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I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be. View quote
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I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not. View quote
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People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press. View quote
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In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves. (Bob Schieffer)
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate. View quote
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My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work. View quote
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For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important. View quote
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With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on. View quote
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