Bob Schieffer famous quotes

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Mistake #Self Confidence #Way

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

#Snow #Heavy #Worst

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

#Thinking #Impact #Community

Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Public Relations #Trump #Relation

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Art #Writing #Foundation

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Sleep #President #Doe

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Christmas #Thanksgiving #Football

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

#Writing #Years #Two

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Competition #Stories #Guests

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

#Football #Games #Long

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Hurt #Thinking #People

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

#Matter #Miserable #Enjoy

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

#Jobs #People #News

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

#Newspapers #Accounts #Persons

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

#Thinking #People #Vietnam

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

#Past #People #Literature

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Growing Up #Television #Literature

I used to be a print reporter.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Literature #Used #Print

It's getting the right person that's the challenge.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Challenges #Literature #Persons

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Trying #Answers #Literature

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Friday #Holiday #Weekend

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

#Jobs #Thinking #Journalism

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Mean #Perspective #Trying

But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Smart #Games #People

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Husband #Father #Practice

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

#War #Iraq #Usual

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

#Independent #White #House

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Military #Troops #Literature

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Thinking #Decision #Boss

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

#Motivation #Dollars #Hundred

Go vote now it will make you feel big and strong
-- Bob Schieffer

#Strong #Vote #Bigs

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?
-- Bob Schieffer

#Fun #People #Mind

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.
-- Bob Schieffer

#Sports #People #Way

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

#Cancer #Thinking #People

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

#Mean #Literature #Life Is