Quotes by Christiane Amanpour

“And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.”

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

“Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.”

“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?”

“I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.”

“Of course, not everybody’s going to agree on everything and nor should they. But unless we can agree that the sky outside is blue and the grass is green, we have no chance.”

“Do you know what? I think you will find that orthodoxies of all the established religions basically always go for us [women]. We always pay the price, the political price, the cultural price. Just ...”

“When #MeToo exploded, there was that real anger; you know, just what is it about the fact that we have breasts and we have genitals that still appears to be a great big green go sign for half the p...”

“One thing I really get annoyed with is this notion that journalists – in every film, every magazine article I see – must really get off on the adrenaline. It’s so wrong; it trivialises what we do.”

“People don't understand that objectivity actually means pursuing the truth. But you get there by giving all sides a hearing, which doesn’t mean treating all sides equally—then you are an accomplice...”

“There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice.”