My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHAFFERThe first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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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.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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 first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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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.
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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.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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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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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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