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 SCHAFFERGood policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.
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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
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The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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