Christiane Amanpour Quotes

United Kingdom, Journalist
January 12, 1958

Christiane Amanpour CBE (/krɪstʃiˈɑːn ɑːmənˈpʊər-/ (About this sound listen); Persian: کریستین امان‌پور‎, translit. Kristiane Amānpur; born 12 January 1958) 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.

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

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- Power
- Leadership
We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.

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.

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- People
- Trust
- Sad
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.

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What we do and say and show really matters.

Christiane Amanpour
Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

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.

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

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- People

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

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- American
- Crazy
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.

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