Anderson Cooper Quotes

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

Not to sound too Dr. Phil all of a sudden, but I think the key to survival is to embrace one’s past and to not run away from it. And to come to some sort of relationship with it or understanding of it.

I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds

Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can’t CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn’t matter.

I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don’t think it’s anyone else’s business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don’t give that up by being a journalist.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn’t take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

Socialism isn’t just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away – the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don’t think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don’t buy it.

I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.

My goodness, why is this woman [ Hillary Clinton ] at 46%? She’s like the magic 46. She’s 46% in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, she’s 46% in a lot of these swing states.