Christiane Amanpour Quotes (69 Quotes)

We do not have weapons of mass destruction.

No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

And then there's always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

Sadly, marriage and motherhood have coincided with the demise of journalism as I knew it and I dreamt that it would always be.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

Her nationalism was known far and wide during the war.

Somalis themselves feel that they are under some sort of what they call psychological warfare. They know that at last the word is out that Somalia may be a next likely target.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

Milosevic was at times impassioned, caustic and sarcastic

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

But think how much more of a contribution we could make to this great society if we weren't so dependent on what I call those hocus-focus-pocus awful groups who tell us what people are not interested in.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.