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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Mr. President, ... what do you say to someone in this country who has lost his job to someone overseas who's being paid a fraction of what that job paid here in the United States?
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A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.
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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.
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I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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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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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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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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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Prior to 9/11, everybody was talking about at least one of the evening news programs going away, that their future was very limited.
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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.
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It does not seem to me like I've been doing this for a year. It seems like I've been doing it for two weeks.
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It does not help in any way for me to get into some kind of a fight with the secretary of defense, since he is there,