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.
Bob Schieffer

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

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

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

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.
Bob Schieffer

One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
Bob Schieffer

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.
Bob Schieffer

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

They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
Bob Schieffer

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.
Bob Schieffer

We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise.
Bob Schieffer

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.
Bob Schieffer

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
Bob Schieffer