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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

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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

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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

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I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

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

— Bob Schieffer

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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. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

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

— Bob Schieffer

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

— Bob Schieffer

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

— Bob Schieffer

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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

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