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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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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The most challenging aspect of it is not interviewing the people, but getting the right people at the right time to be interviewed.
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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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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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Well, are they really thinking that maybe they could lose control of the House next time around?
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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.
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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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Anyway, that offer is not going to be made.