Bob Schieffer

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.

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

If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

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.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

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

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.

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.

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

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.