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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I think we've come a tremendous distance here. We had been beaten about the heads and shoulders so badly for so long there that people were pretty quiet about the office. People are talking again. They're having more fun, and they're smiling more.
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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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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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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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I've had a lot of fun, and when I talk to kids in journalism schools, I say, look, I know what the journalism teachers tell you that this is a great way to perform public service and all that, but I say the main reason, if you decide what you want to do is be a reporter, the main reason you want to do it is because it's just so much fun.
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We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
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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.
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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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My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.