Quotes by Anderson Cooper

“I imagine a lot of people tune in simply to watch reporters get bitch-slapped by Mother Nature, and frankly, who can blame them?”

“I suppose if youve never bitten your nails, there isnt any way to explain the habit. Its not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.”

“I wouldnt call it looting. What I have seen is desperate people kind of wandering around here in downtown Gulfport. There are a lot of police here in Gulfport, so you cant get away with looting. But I have seen people picking stuff up from the wreckage. I saw a man with two bottles of olive oil. He was hoping to try to cook something up. He says he has no water. He doesnt really have much of a place to go. So there are a lot of people just desperately in need.”

“Its not happening, theyre nowhere near the airport.”

“[Anyway,] Awkward T.V. Moments ... I decided at the last second that I just had to have my laptop. Smooth move, Columbo.”

“To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up.”

“These people deserve to have the world watching what is happening to them,”

“Hell yes! Ive been fighting the hard fight to try and get money, I KNEW this was gonna happen and Ive BEEN knowing it was gonna happen for YEARS!”

“Shes still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is and where her family is.”

“Im not showing tight shots of rotting corpses. Weve tried to be respectful. We dont want anyone to find out on television that their family is dead.”

“There is nothing sadder to see people who lived a good decent life dead on the side of the road. I used to go overseas to report on that but now Im doing it at home.”

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Politics was his passion, but he wasnt suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and its easy to fall off.

The whole celebrity culture thing - Im fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

Anyone who says theyre not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

I dont have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.

Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.