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Bob Schieffer Quotes

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Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can’t trump bad policy  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) But if you’re going to go out on a military unit, you’ve got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They’re all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they’re all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That’s a formula for getting news  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) 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  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) 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  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) 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  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) We’re far from perfect. It’s a human enterprise  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) Whether or not the President is sleeping well won’t be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) 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.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander’s boss to get that changed.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) 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.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I’m not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) I’ve basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) I used to be a print reporter  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) Go vote now it will make you feel big and strong  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be  (Bob Schieffer Quotes) 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  (Bob Schieffer Quotes)
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