Bob Schieffer Quotes

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

If there is anything good to be said about my particular line of work, it's that we get to tell people the news they need to hear, and to put it in context. To get to that - for one hour every night on the 'PBS NewsHour,' and for an additional half-hour every Friday night on 'Washington Week,' we have to slog through a lot of tough stuff.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

I've always read the papers but didn't feel I knew enough in the past. But doing the research and looking at newspapers and online websites gives you a 360-degree view of the news.

MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Modern young news consumers want not only to know what happened but why it happened.

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

When I'm in studio, we cover the news. But no one says the news has to be boring.

I've always sort of listened to news radio.

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

I'm fascinated by current events and the privilege of trying to share it with other people and tell a story.

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

I got hooked on 'All Things Considered.'

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.