Quotes By Bob Schieffer
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
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
Bob Schieffer
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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.
Bob Schieffer
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
Bob Schieffer
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.
Bob Schieffer
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
Bob Schieffer
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
Bob Schieffer
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
Bob Schieffer
But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
Bob Schieffer
But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
Bob Schieffer
With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
Bob Schieffer
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
Bob Schieffer
My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
Bob Schieffer
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
I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
Bob Schieffer
Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
Bob Schieffer
The best thing about the Congress is that it is the last place where you can have face-to-face interviews and interaction with the newsmakers themselves.
Bob Schieffer
American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Bob Schieffer
Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.
Bob Schieffer
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.
Bob Schieffer
I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
Bob Schieffer
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.
Bob Schieffer