227 Quotes by Anderson Cooper

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push their limits and all that. To me, that seems foolish, and there's no point.

There was a time when I first started when I made a fake press pass and borrowed a camera and headed into wars, and for three years, that was the only kind of story I was interested in doing.

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.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.

I always thought, 'I'm on my own, and that's the way it should be.'

I think my mom and dad both wanted to get across to me that... I obviously grew up with great privilege and was very lucky and was able to afford college and not have student loans, and they would pay for college, but beyond that, it would be up to me to make a living.