Bob Schieffer Quotes

Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it'll hurt the guy on the other side.

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.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

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.

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

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.

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.

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.

I used to be a print reporter.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

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

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

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

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

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.

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.

Go vote now, it will make you feel big and strong.

I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.

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?

Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.

A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.

Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can't trump bad policy.

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.

Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.