Quotes by Christiane Amanpour

About Christiane Amanpour:

Christiane Amanpour is a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour 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.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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 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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Christiane Amanpour

'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 iss...

Christiane Amanpour

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

Christiane Amanpour

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

Christiane Amanpour

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

Christiane Amanpour

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

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

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.

Christiane Amanpour

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.

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

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

Christiane Amanpour

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

Christiane Amanpour

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

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

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

Christiane Amanpour

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

Christiane Amanpour

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameChristiane Amanpour
  • DescriptionNews anchor and international correspondent
  • BornJanuary 12, 1958
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Peabody Award; George Polk Award