I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
BOB SCHAFFERThe Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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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.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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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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There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
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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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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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The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
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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.
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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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