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.
BOB SCHAFFERMy mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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Talk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
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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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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?
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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.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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