John Pomfret Quotes

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• I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge…
• But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives…
• When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
• The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
• And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
• I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week…
• The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for…
• Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
• In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
• A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean…
• I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect…
• I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
• My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
• And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests…
• The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions…
• I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.
• Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
• For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones…
• Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really…
• I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the…

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