Christiane Amanpour

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people ...
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We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no ...
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a ...
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I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who ...
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

What we do and say and show really matters.

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.

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.