Bob Schieffer Quotes

• 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.

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• And as a result, I guess I’m just kind of a rubberneck. I’m kind of a – someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don’t think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

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• At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They’re all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they’re all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That’s a formula for getting news.

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• But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.

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• 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.

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• And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience – I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

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• 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.

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• I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

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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.

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• I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

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• But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

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• 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.

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• Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn’t have happened.

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• But if you’re going to go out on a military unit, you’ve got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

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• 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.

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• I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

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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.

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• I used to be a print reporter.

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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.

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• It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.

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Bob Schieffer (44)

Birth:	25th February, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Journalist

About

Bob Schieffer was born in Austin, Texas. He is an American television journalist who has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News from 1973 to 1996; chief Washington correspondent since 1982, moderator of the Sunday public affairs show Face the Nation since 1991. From March 2005 to August 31, 2006, Schieffer was interim weekday anchor of the CBS Evening News. His career with CBS has almost exclusively dealt with national politics. Schieffer moderated debate of the presidential candidates in 2012, between President Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, on October 22 in Boca Raton, Florida.

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