Bob Schieffer

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

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

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

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.