Foreign Correspondent Quotes

#1. Thank luck and DNA.

John Green

#2. You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

Mark Leibovich

#4. For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights of those who have none was the reason I became a journalist in the first place. Now, I see the human rights movement as opposing human rights.

Stephen Kinzer

#5. I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

Rick Atkinson

#6. Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

Stephen Farrell

#7. 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.

Christiane Amanpour

#8. Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly different nations organized themselves economically. The inescapable conclusion was that no politician anywhere on the planet has ever actually created a rupee's worth of prosperity.

Louis Rukeyser

#9. an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached.

Donald E. Westlake

#10. A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.

Tom Stoppard

#11. I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.

Frederik Pohl

#12. A foreign correspondent, after talking to me for a while, once said: "You don't seem smart enough to be so good at what you're doing. Do you have an explanation?"

Charlie Munger

#13. If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

Molly Ivins

#14. I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

Anthony Bourdain

#15. In those long-ago days I saw a daughter with a disability. Now I see a beautiful, engaging person with a different ability, one that has blessed her with extra gifts and special perceptions.

Lee Woodruff

#16. Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.

Thomas Friedman

#17. It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Russell Baker

#18. Non-fiction about personal subjects is going to attract more user comments than a foreign correspondent writing from Syria - unfortunately.

Meghan Daum

#19. The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

Robert D. Kaplan

#20. On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.

Sushil Koirala

#21. It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

Stephen Farrell

#22. I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.

Geraldine Brooks

#23. The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Alan Cranston

#24. Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

Sam Simon

#25. Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

Jonathan Lethem