Bob Schieffer Quotes

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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…
• And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
• With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I used to be a print reporter.
• I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
• People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
• 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.
• If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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