Christiane Amanpour Quotes

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us?

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report.

Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

I happen to believe that any legitimate news organization in the world would do that interview. And if the United States is going to be a proponent of a free press, it has to walk the walk.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.