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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.
I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.
What we do and say and show really matters.
But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.
Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.
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.
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.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.
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.
Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.
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.
In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
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?
'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.
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.
Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.
If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero ... The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.