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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.

Bob Schaffer

Talk about threats to national security — how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?
BOB SCHAFFER

Complicated Government Way
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Ballots Light Occasion Party
A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone’s life on every single story that he covers. It’s not like being a sports reporter. That’s a great job and all that and takes certain skills.
BOB SCHAFFER

Football Jobs Sports
It’s getting the right person that’s the challenge.
BOB SCHAFFER

Challenges Literature Person
Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
BOB SCHAFFER

Accounts Newspapers Persons
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?
BOB SCHAFFER

Fun Mind People
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Hands Touching Voters
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Administration Parent Problem Trouble
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Two Writing Years
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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Kindness Peaceful Prayer
Government is just spending too much money.
BOB SCHAFFER

Government Spending
It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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Government Impossible Unlikely
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
BOB SCHAFFER

Eyebrows Moscow Pride
When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
BOB SCHAFFER

Dollars Inspirational Motivation
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 SCHAFFER

Country People Usual War
Once 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.
BOB SCHAFFER

Answers Literature Trying

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