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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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 them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.
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Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.
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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,
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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'd covered the campaign in 1988, and I'd managed to gain an even 20 pounds, which is one of the dangers you have covering those campaigns.