If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

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.

now is a crucial stage of the peace process

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.

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

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

Why have we given George W. Bush such an easy ride when-until now, that is-when actually his qualifications are questionable?

We understand that Serbs will be elected who will continue with the same policy to divide Bosnia, … but we will have them around the table fighting with arguments instead of fighting with guns.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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...

Dramatic moment for international justice

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.

It is clear that his testimony is targeted at Serbian public opinion.

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

She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.

We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can do it, and I believe we can win this battle.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Somalis themselves feel that they are under some sort of what they call psychological warfare. They know that at last the word is out that Somalia may be a next likely target.

We do not have weapons of mass destruction.

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...

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, it’s true.

We do it because we’re committed, because we’re believers.

It wasn’t noisy and it wasn’t with much resistance, but he stared them down and walked out with them on either side rather than rather than them handling him,

the watery graveyard that is New Orleans.

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

I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn’t be more important.

the world as a whole is prepared to act.

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

His hair is black, as it’s always been, his beard was black with significant gray … a good deal older and weaker and more frail than he looked the last time I saw him come...

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.

It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.

Now, … now that we’ve got that sorted out, can we all go inside?

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

No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, … He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.

Milosevic was at times impassioned, caustic and sarcastic

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

Would you accept shared sovereignty of Washington? … You accept London being shared?

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...

European leaders are expected to disagree with Bush’s olive branch.

Let’s see what they’re carrying first, … It’s just water.

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

Yeah, but what did you lose as a return? The hope of the people, the stability, no better democracy, no better economy, no services, no stability in the region, more terrorism — so is that...

I am personally thrilled though by the changes at CNN, which no doubt you have all read about. because it means we are responding to the times.

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.

It is true the Cold War has ended and that our big bosses think that relieves them of the obligation to cover the world.

‘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...

We are the first eyes, the first ears, the first to tell a certain story because without us who? Without us who?,

open hostility and defiance.

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

And I worked my way up through every level. I was a writer, I was a producer, I was a field producer, I was a reporter and I am a reporter.