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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

I used to be a print reporter.
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It's getting the right person that's the challenge.
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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.
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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.
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They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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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.
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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.
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