Cnn Quotes

• CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

  Jay Leno

  Cheating, Strong Women, Husband

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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.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mistake, World, Revolution

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Years, Dollars, Suitcases

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Lying, Squash, Leader

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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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.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Grateful, Past, Years

  "Christiane Amanpour quits CNN" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

  Roger Ailes

  America, Als, Businessman

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• I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

  Tucker Carlson

  Daughter, Mother, Morning

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• There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

  Lisa Ling

  Black And White, Media, Stories

  "Lisa Ling On Tackling Tough Topics". www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2012.

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• I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Together, Amazed

  "Inside News Corporation". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2004.

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

  Christiane Amanpour

  Believe, Our World, Media

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• Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his name.

  Doug Stanhope

  Drinking, Games, Play

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• [CNN host] doesn't know what's going on in the editing room. She knows what he's told happened, and she's reading it off the teleprompter, and she just accepts it. I'm not saying that they're IQ dumb or any of that. I'm saying they're not curious.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Reading, Editing, Dumb

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

  Alain de Botton

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!

  Maureen Johnson

  Daughter, Jumping, Worry

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, Beer, Brave Face

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• If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  New York, Writing, Play

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• I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Word of Mouth". Comedy, November 2002.

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• I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

  Matt Drudge

  Team, Makeup, News

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• When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

  Ted Turner

  Decision, Mind, Doers

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.

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• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  Ted Turner

  Responsibility, Action, Publishers

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• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  Ted Turner

  Years, News, Half

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• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Cartoon, Cartoon Network

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Play, Choices, Looks

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• I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Pushing, News

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Awards, Majority Leader

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