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 think this is one of those deals that isn't done until it's done, and right now I don't think anybody really knows what Katie will decide. It's up to Katie to decide, and when she does, we'll all know.
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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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He's got a great track record, ... He's innovative. He's a guy with ideas. He's made CBS Sports something we can all be proud of and he sets very high standards. I think all of that will translate very well.
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Anyway, that offer is not going to be made.
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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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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 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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Well, are they really thinking that maybe they could lose control of the House next time around?
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There are still a lot of things I want to do that have nothing to do with CBS. I'd like to come back for election coverage in 2008 -- but to work five days a week is not what I want to do.
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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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I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
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But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.