The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
BOB SCHAFFERParents 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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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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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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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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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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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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