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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.

~Christiane Amanpour

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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.

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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.

~Christiane Amanpour

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

~Christiane Amanpour

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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.

~Christiane Amanpour

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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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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.

~Christiane Amanpour

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

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: January 12th, 1958

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