The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays – beyond their meaning – a factor in our economy.
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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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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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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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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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.
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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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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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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from 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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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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