SCHIEFFER

(PNI) They said it

"Presidents change and directors change -- you can keep changing the showbiz side, the names on the marquee -- but the ways, needs, demands, imperatives, secrets and strategies of The Agencies stay pretty much the same, except for one thing: They always want more."

Peggy Noonan,

Wall Street Journal

"But wait, the president can explain. It's not what we think. People won't have the same insurance -- they will have better insurance, administration officials assure. That's not the way some of the people receiving these letters see it. The president's original promise was so ironclad and repeated so often that any explanation now sounds like dissembling."

John Dickerson,

Slate

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Bob Schieffer

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Many people have received Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, not sure anyone appreciates it more than I do. Thanks @Cronkite _ASU!

Constantin Querard

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So much media coverage of how @JohnMcCain could face a "tea party challenger" if he runs again. It will be a Republican Party challenger.

Joe Arpaio

@RealSheriffJoe

If I were ever going to don a Halloween costume, it would be…The Lone Ranger.

Barrett Marson

@barrettmarson

If Landrum Taylor doesn't run for SOS, who will? Dems don't have a bench. Heck, they don't even have a footstool.

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