Bob Schieffer Quotes

• I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

  Bob Schieffer

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• I’ve basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

  Bob Schieffer

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• 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

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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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It’s no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

  Bob Schieffer

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• Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

  Bob Schieffer

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

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• 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

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• We’re far from perfect. It’s a human enterprise.

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• 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.

  Bob Schieffer

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• With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

  Bob Schieffer

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• If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.

  Bob Schieffer

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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.

  Bob Schieffer

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• They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

  Bob Schieffer

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• Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates – they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can’t blame them for that.

  Bob Schieffer

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• 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

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• My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

  Bob Schieffer

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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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