Timid he's not, CNN's Quest calls them out as he sees them

There was no question it was the right floor at Tokyo's Intercontinental Hotel. The voice booming through the walls could only belong to one man.

"I want life!" CNN anchor Richard Quest blared out in his signature English accent to a reporter whose question stayed within the confines of the room. Another blast: "See what I'm saying?"

Well, anybody could certainly hear it. For, in his better than two decades in the television business and as one of the network's top players, the 44-year-old Quest has mastered the art of making himself bracingly clear to any audience -- whether it's while reporting to millions of viewers worldwide on the funeral of Pope John Paul II, as he did last year, or merely chatting with a couple of journalists in a hotel suite in Tokyo the other day.