Author details
All John Pomfret Quotes
Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
John Pomfret
62% of people like this quote
One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.
John Pomfret
58% of people like this quote
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.
John Pomfret
57% of people like this quote
Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.
John Pomfret
53% of people like this quote
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
John Pomfret
53% of people like this quote
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
John Pomfret
53% of people like this quote
In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.
John Pomfret
53% of people like this quote
When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back.
John Pomfret
52% of people like this quote
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
John Pomfret
51% of people like this quote
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 as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.
John Pomfret
51% of people like this quote
When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.
John Pomfret
50% of people like this quote
The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.
John Pomfret
50% of people like this quote
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 front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
John Pomfret
50% of people like this quote
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 that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.
John Pomfret
50% of people like this quote
And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.
John Pomfret
50% of people like this quote
Related authors