John Pomfret Quotes

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

Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience. - John Pomfret

When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back. - John Pomfret

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

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession. - John Pomfret

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 it. - John Pomfret

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively. - John Pomfret

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered. - John Pomfret

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

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