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1. "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 came down very hard on me." ~ John Pomfret
2. "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
3. "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
4. "I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China." ~ John Pomfret
5. "And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early." ~ John Pomfret
6. "I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions." ~ John Pomfret
7. "In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything." ~ John Pomfret
8. "My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd." ~ John Pomfret
9. "Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered." ~ John Pomfret
10. "Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively." ~ John Pomfret
11. "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
12. "The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession." ~ John Pomfret
13. "When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back." ~ John Pomfret
14. "Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience." ~ John Pomfret
15. "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
16. "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
17. "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
18. "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 happen the way you want it to." ~ John Pomfret

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