They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
BOB SCHAFFERThe truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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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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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.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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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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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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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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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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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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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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Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.
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