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
Bob Schieffer quotes about
independent white house
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.
military literature troops
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.
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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.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.
trying literature way
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.
morning night people
A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
literature used print
I used to be a print reporter.
thinking people important
And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
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I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.
past people literature
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.
thinking people vietnam
Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.
jobs people different
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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But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.