Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer
Bob Lloyd Schiefferis an American television journalist. Schieffer married Patricia Penrose Schieffer in 1967. They have two daughters and three granddaughters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth25 February 1937
CityAustin, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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But I'm not too old to continue moderating Face the Nation . I'll continue that indefinitely after the anchor duties are concluded.
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I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.
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We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
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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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I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
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People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
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I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.