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
stupid hate differences
What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.
people outsiders way
Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.
no-respect ifs viewers
If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
order track soldier
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.
desire said quaint
Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.
technology people talent
Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
team anchors issues
I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.
war past years
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
children passion married
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.
children gun thinking
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
iran democracy movement
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
stories driven certain
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.
presses
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
events ends made
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.