Christiane Amanpour Quotes (69 Quotes)


    No matter what the hocus-pocus focus groups tell you, time has proven that all the gimmicks and all the cheap journalism can only carry us so far.

    For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

    I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.


    It is true the Cold War has ended and that our big bosses think that relieves them of the obligation to cover the world.


    I am personally thrilled though by the changes at CNN, which no doubt you have all read about. because it means we are responding to the times.

    In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

    If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

    We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can do it, and I believe we can win this battle.

    In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

    It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.

    Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

    Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.


    They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

    We understand that Serbs will be elected who will continue with the same policy to divide Bosnia, ... but we will have them around the table fighting with arguments instead of fighting with guns.


    Now that the tribunal has (former Yugoslav president Slobodan) Milosevic in the dock, the prosecutor (Carla del Ponte) is being more and more direct in her demands that the two most wanted suspects be brought in now.

    I think it an attack certainly will have an adverse effect on the Islamic world and also in the other parts,

    And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

    We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

    I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera and all of a sudden I realized that he was dying.

    U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

    She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.

    They have said they do not have any nuclear weapons-related activities, which means we have to do a lot of work,

    In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

    Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

    His hair is black, as it's always been, his beard was black with significant gray ... a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come into court in the summer of 2004 when he came for his initial hearing.

    I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important.

    Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

    Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

    I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

    More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places.


    'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

    It transpired that Saddam Hussein was attempting to make some kind of speech or have some kind of discussion with the judge outside of what the judge had directly asked him,

    Would you accept shared sovereignty of Washington ... You accept London being shared



    I still have many years left in me, if I still have a job, but that's what I'll tell my son when he's old enough to torture me with painful questions.

    Obviously, a successful Palestinian election and what seems to be a successful Iraqi election can only assure people that this is a process that the Middle East needs, and one that needs to be taken seriously,

    That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now.


    Yeah, but what did you lose as a return The hope of the people, the stability, no better democracy, no better economy, no services, no stability in the region, more terrorism -- so is that the prize you've won for getting rid of a dictator That's not a goal.

    We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

    And I worked my way up through every level. I was a writer, I was a producer, I was a field producer, I was a reporter and I am a reporter.

    What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.

    But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

    I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

    If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.


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