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.

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.

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

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