Quotes from Christiane Amanpour

'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.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

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

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

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

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

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

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

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

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

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.

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else, if not here in English. —GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT, "BILINGUAL BLUES

I found it a condescending expectation—that my words and mannerisms would meld into the mainstream around me—but it was also a fair question: how do you retain so strongly strands of somewhere or something you have never lived? - Nour Malas

I quickly decided to turn loss and failure into my driving force.

Syria: never the country I called home, but certainly my homeland. - Nour Malas