Christiane Amanpour Quotes

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

There is a power in our land, irresponsible, corrupt and malicious—‘the press,’ which has created the intense feelings of hostility that has arrayed the two parts of the country against each other, which must be curbed and brought within the just limits of reason and law, before we can have peace in America. We can deal with armies who have a visible and tangible existence, but it will require tact and skill and courage to clip the wings of this public enemy.

The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. One would then like to ask: by what law has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

I think the media is a real demon.

I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

I cover media people the way they cover politicians.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

I apologize for what the media has done.

The concept that the press is an organ of government policy dies hard.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The newspapers of your country seem to be more powerful than the government.

Burke said there were three estates in Parliament; but in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press.

The press are scum.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

Past occurrences have generally shown that there hasn’t been satisfaction from politicians in the manner they were covered [by the press.]

The media is like the terrain and weather. It is a fact; it's nothing you can change. You have to learn to deal with it. And it isn't bad or good, it's just there. I don't think we should put limits on the press, unless it's for security reasons or for reasons of risk in the case of an operation. We value freedom of the press. It's something we are fighting for. It's part of the constitutional rights that we swear our allegiance to. We just have to accept it and learn to deal with it in a right way, and give and take.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.