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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I sometimes tell people, when I was hired at CBS, it was because I was a good writer, not whether I was or not was beside the point.
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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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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 mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
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I also think it's not just good for the American people to have independent observers along, I think it's also good for the military.
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I will be delighted if she came. I think she'll be a great addition to a very good news team ... I've known Katie for years and I think the world of her.
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Every news organization, if it's aggressive and doing what it ought to be doing, is going to get caught with a bad story from time to time.
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I kind of think this might be something fun to do, but I want to make absolutely sure that this is what I want to do.
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I'm a big Katie fan, I've always been a big Katie fan.
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We talked about a thousand things, but we really talked about our parents. She is very close to her mother, and I was very close to my mother.
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You cannot be objective about human suffering and people dying. Any person who was not outraged by that, I'm not sure they have business being a reporter.
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You have to put people in place here who are going to be here for ten or 15 years. That's not me.
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Wars are not fought on the training ground, nor can they be covered from the television studio. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of both these brave men.
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Wars are not fought on the training ground, nor can they be covered from a TV studio. They are not reality shows, they are reality. Young men and women have to fight them, and correspondents have to cover them if we are to understand what they are about.