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 SCHAFFEROnce 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.
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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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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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
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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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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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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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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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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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Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
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