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Bob Schieffer

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

Bob Schieffer

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

Bob Schieffer

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

Bob Schieffer

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

Bob Schieffer

But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

– Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

– Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer

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

Bob Schieffer

I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

– Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer

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

Bob Schieffer

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

Bob Schieffer

If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.

– Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer

I’ve basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

– Bob Schieffer

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