Quotes from Anderson Cooper

Donald Trump said he doesn't care about Paul Ryan's support, he doesn't want Paul Ryan's support, that he might be better off without Paul Ryan's support.

There are some people who are Burger King people, and there are some people who are McDonald's people.

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

When you lose a parent at ten years old, the world seems like a much scarier place. It makes complete sense to me that I took survival courses when I was a teenager and started going to war zones as a reporter. I didn't ever want to be taken advantage of, and I wanted to be able to take care of those around me.

There are some things which are so horrific that some people feel they can't do anything about it: that the natural, understandable response is to tune it out.

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 realized I didn't want there to be anything left unsaid with my mom. I didn't want there to be questions that I still had about who she was and what her life was like. And I didn't want her to have questions about me as an adult.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

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

Do you get the anger that is out here?

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

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

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 think viewers realize that people are a lot more three-dimensional than TV has traditionally portrayed them, particularly in news.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.