Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, CBEis a British-Iranian journalist and television host. Amanpour is the Chief International Correspondent for CNN and host of CNN International's nightly interview program Amanpour. Amanpour is also a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News. As of 2014, she has been recognized as one of the journalists most world leaders follow on Twitter, according to a report by the PR firm Burson-Marsteller...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 January 1958
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We are the first eyes, the first ears, the first to tell a certain story because without us who? Without us who?,
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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
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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.
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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.
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That was seven years ago. I have been married two years and I have a five-month-old son now.
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I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important.
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I still have many years left in me, if I still have a job, but that's what I'll tell my son when he's old enough to torture me with painful questions.
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Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable?
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We understand that Serbs will be elected who will continue with the same policy to divide Bosnia, ... but we will have them around the table fighting with arguments instead of fighting with guns.
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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.
accept london shared
Would you accept shared sovereignty of Washington? ... You accept London being shared?
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But think how much more of a contribution we could make to this great society if we weren't so dependent on what I call those hocus-focus-pocus awful groups who tell us what people are not interested in.
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I have lost many friends and I've seen many, many more wounded, by snipers, by mortar shells, by landmines and by the crazed Kalashnikov-wielding druggies at checkpoints.
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We thrived as I said on the pioneer spirit of CNN. We adored being the little network that could.