Bob Schieffer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Bob Schieffer quotes and sayings page 2 (87 year old journalist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 44 we have for him.
“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.”
“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.”
“One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?”
“They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.”
“In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.”
“I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.”
“My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.”
“We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.”
“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.”
“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.”
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