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"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
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"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."
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"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
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"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."
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"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
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"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."
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"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
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"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."
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"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."
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"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."
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"But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people."
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"I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful."
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"I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance."
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"Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do."
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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."
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"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."
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"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."
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