I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
BOB SCHAFFERWell, 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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Government is just spending too much money.
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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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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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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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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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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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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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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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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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But here’s the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can’t. I can’t even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don’t get it.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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