Christiane Amanpour Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

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

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

I'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.

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.