80 ordspråk av Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour
If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
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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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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
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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.
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It is clear that his testimony is targeted at Serbian public opinion.
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It is true the Cold War has ended and that our big bosses think that relieves them of the obligation to cover the world.
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It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.
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It transpired that Saddam Hussein was attempting to make some kind of speech or have some kind of discussion with the judge outside of what the judge had directly asked him,
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It wasn't noisy and it wasn't with much resistance, but he stared them down and walked out with them on either side rather than rather than them handling him,
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It's bigger, stronger and louder than last night,
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Let's see what they're carrying first, ... It's just water.
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Milosevic was at times impassioned, caustic and sarcastic
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More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places.
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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.
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