Christiane Amanpour Quotes

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

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

Good, Place, Television

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

Thought, Lives, Run

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

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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.
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Good, Business, Journalism

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

Bicycle, Dollars, Arrived

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

Trust, Sad, Here

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

End, Living, Events

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

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

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

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

Children, Child, Gun

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

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
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Become, Big, Cnn

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

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.
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Committed, Believers

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

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

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.
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Revolution, Mistake, Changed

What we do and say and show really matters.
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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.
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Hard, Personal, While

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.
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Important, Country, United

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

Country, Why, Actually

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

Experience, Job, Light

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: January 12, 1958

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