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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.

Bob Schaffer

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

Life Literature Mean
Government is just spending too much money.
BOB SCHAFFER

Government Spending
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
BOB SCHAFFER

Division Loyalty Military
Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
BOB SCHAFFER

Administration Parent Problem Trouble
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 SCHAFFER

Two Writing Years
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
BOB SCHAFFER

Government Impossible Unlikely
My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHAFFER

Cancer People Thinking
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 SCHAFFER

Answers Literature Trying
A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone’s life on every single story that he covers. It’s not like being a sports reporter. That’s a great job and all that and takes certain skills.
BOB SCHAFFER

Football Jobs Sports
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 SCHAFFER

Boss Decision Thinking
It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
BOB SCHAFFER

Challenges Literature Person
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 SCHAFFER

Mean Perspective Trying
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 SCHAFFER

Literature Past People
And as a result, I guess I’m just kind of a rubberneck. I’m kind of a – someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don’t think journalists are as important as the people they cover.
BOB SCHAFFER

Important People Thinking
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Art Foundation Writing
But, you know, they’re glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.
BOB SCHAFFER

Football Nobody Police Reporter Show

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