Bob Schieffer Quotes

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Turkey still has one of the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

I know better than to ever attempt to get a reporter removed from covering any topic. That would never be an option.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

The violation of press freedoms has been egregious under this administration, even as the press fetes President Obama as an honest and effective commander-in-chief.

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.

The Constitution does not guarantee objectivity of the press …. The question … is not whether news shall be unprejudiced but rather whose prejudices shall color the news.

Journalists follow authority as sharks follow a liner, dining on the scraps that are thrown overboard.