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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.
Christiane Amanpour

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.
Christiane Amanpour

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

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

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.
Christiane Amanpour

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?
Christiane Amanpour

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

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.
Christiane Amanpour

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

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.
Christiane Amanpour

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

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.
Christiane Amanpour

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.
Christiane Amanpour

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

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

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

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

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.
Christiane Amanpour

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