Christiane Amanpour Quotes

• And I really believe good journalism is good business.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Believe, Journalism

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Better, Television

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Relationship, Intensely

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, People

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bicycle, Arrived

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Important, United, Simply

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Actually, Mentioned

• 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

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in People, Journalists, Profession

• 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

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Living, Network

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Century, Living

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Unacceptable

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passion, Expected

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spent, Zone

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Begin, Equivalent

• 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.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Family, Respect

  Tags in past, Company

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Responsibility

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in American, Always

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Thinks, Little

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Viewers, Ourselves

• 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

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Democracies, Civil

Christiane Amanpour (34)

Birth:	12th January, 1958
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Anchor, Journalist

About

Christiane Amanpour was born in London, England. She is a British anchor and journalist. She is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. She is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. As of 2014, she has been recognized as one of the journalists most world leaders follow on Twitter according to a report by the PR firm Burson-Marsteller. In 1983, Amanpour graduated from the university summa cum laude with a B.A. degree in journalism.

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