But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
BOB SCHAFFERVote 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.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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Good policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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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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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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I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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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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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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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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There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
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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.
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I can’t think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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