Bob Schieffer
Journalist
1937-02-25
Bob Schieffer is an American television journalist and longtime CBS News correspondent known for moderating Face the Nation and covering Washington politics for decades.
Books by Bob Schieffer
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This just in
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Face the nation
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The acting president
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Quotes by Bob Schieffer
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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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For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
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Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that.
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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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