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"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
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"The doctrine that war is always a greater evil seems to imply a materialist ethic, a belief that death and pain are the greatest evils. But I do not think they are... All men die, and most men miserably. That two soldiers on opposite sides, each believing his own country to be in the right, each at the moment when his selfishness is most in abeyance and his will to sacrifice in the ascendant, should kill [each] other in plain battle seems to me by no means one of the most terrible things in this terrible world."
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"Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket."
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"What is the first thing we did when we took control of Iraq? Protect the oil fields. Remember the administration quote about how the oil would pay for the war."
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"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
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"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"
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"Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
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"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
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"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"
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"Nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds."
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"The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it."
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"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."
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"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
Democracy
"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
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"We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does."
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"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
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"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."
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