Bob Schieffer Quotes

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.
It's getting the right person that's the challenge.
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.
My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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.
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.
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?
People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
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.
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.
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.
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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.
We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
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.
With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
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.
I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
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