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

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

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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

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

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

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

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.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

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.

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

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

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

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.

What we do and say and show really matters.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.