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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 mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me. ↗

— 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 job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#breath #catch #chance #everyone #get

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

— Bob Schieffer

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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

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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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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

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