Bob Schieffer

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.