Top 34 Quotes by 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.

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.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

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

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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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

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

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.

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