A biography for Christiane Amanpourhasn’t been written yet.
“אנו מתגברים על הפחד, אני מתגברת עליו, אבל כמובן אנו משלמים מחיר של מתח תמידי.”
“אמרתי שאם יש לך ילד, עליך לפחות להתחייב להישאר בחיים.”
“פעם אמרתי למראיין כי לעולם לא אנשא, וכי לעולם לא יהיו לי ילדים.”
“בתחילה הייתי לא יותר מאשר מגישת תה, אך במהרה החלטתי כי אני עומדת להפוך לכתבת חוץ.”
“לפני שבע עשרה שנה הגעתי ל־CNN עם מזוודה, עם אופניים ועם מאה דולר.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?”
“We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.”
“But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.”
“And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.”
“In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.”
“If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.”
“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.”