Top 40 Brooke Baldwin Quotes

I want to help lift women’s voices. And I realize, in doing that, I need to use my own.

I’m reporting on a world at war.

I invite a variety people on my show with wide-ranging opinions – sometimes even my jaw hits the floor, too – but I let them speak. Whether it’s left, right, or center, I want to expose my viewers to other perspectives. Agree with them or not, the nation needs to listen.

I always believe with a great day, you also have a not-great day.

I grew up in Atlanta, which meant the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was a mere 200 miles away.

At age 12, it was obvious. I had to go to Space Camp.

What’s been fascinating about shooting my series ‘American Woman’ is the ubiquity of a woman’s experience – and no matter who you are: a rockstar, film director, mom – we all are celebrating this movement of female empowerment, but we also realize we have a long way to go.

I run into viewers all the time who have no idea I’ve moved to N.Y.C. I think, for many of them, a studio is a studio is a studio.

Throughout the 2016 presidential election, I listened. At debates and rallies, I heard their voices clearly and felt compelled to do something more. Thousands and thousands of women spoke with confidence and conviction.

My 2016 was basically spent covering Donald Trump and falling madly in love with James Fletcher.

There are often days when I’ve sat down in my office for hours and prepped for a show knowing, three minutes before I go on, some big crazy thing happens where everything is thrown out, and the teleprompter goes blank.

I have no choice but to be 100-percent-focused. My two hours get blown up nearly every single day by breaking news.

It’s a funny thing when you finally have an excuse to get all of your favorite people from all corners of the globe together in one room for my wedding. Other than saying ‘I do’ to my hunky Englishman, that is the thing I am most excited about!

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

I definitely feed off of people.

One of my early heroes was Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

Feeling physically strong in the morning truly helps me keep focused the rest of the day.

It’s so important to talk to the first responders.

All I know is what I do each and every day and what we do here at CNN, which is all about the facts, asking tough questions, challenging leaders and our own leadership in this country.

It’s not always easy, but I love my job.

The first time I ever saw James in a tux, I told him, ‘Oh, my: wherever and whenever we get married, you have to wear one of these again!’

Ava DuVernay, Sheryl Crow, Diane von Furstenberg, Ashley Graham, Tracy Reese, Pat Benatar, Issa Rae, Betty White – they’ve all shattered glass ceilings, whether in music, fashion, or film.

CNN was just a glimmer in my eye when I was growing up in Atlanta.

There’s a genuineness that I hope I offer to viewers.

I’ve covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn’t on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there.

My job is to be OK without a precise plan.

In the most polarized and passionate, the most angry and aggressive news environment in recent memory, my job as a journalist requires me – often – to push back in live interviews against comments that are unfair, untrue, or leave me thinking, ‘Is this seriously happening right now?’

I had to put in my time all through my 20s. Then I came to CNN in 2008 as a freelancer with no guarantees.

I’d been invited to deliver the commencement address to the Class of 2017 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaking live on television is one thing… speaking to 30,000 people in a football stadium is another.

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

I’ve never used the word ‘I’ in a piece in my 18 years in journalism.

I’m fortunate enough to get hair and makeup every day because of what I do, but it’s the same, consistent look. Great for TV, not so fun for a wedding!

Having covered the crazy campaign of 2016 and seeing a lot of young women showing up, I just had this ah-ha moment. I went to my bosses and said, ‘Guys, I want to make women my priority.’

I’d definitely have some butterflies if the day ever came when I’d get to sit down with Oprah.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

I think viewers know CNN delivers time and time again on the most important stories.

People are full of great advice… Professors, parents, friends mean well… But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.

It has always been important for women to empower other women.

When either major stories break or something just really touches me, I initiate and pitch, then follow through. I will literally march across the newsroom and bang on the president of CNN’s door. He knows when I’m coming.