Brooke Baldwin Quotes

Brooke Baldwin

Profession : Journalist

Birth : July 12, 1979

My job is to be OK without a precise plan.

Brooke Baldwin

I definitely feed off of people.

Brooke Baldwin

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!

Brooke Baldwin

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.

Brooke Baldwin

What surprised me the most? Christina Hagan, the millennial Congressional candidate and ardent Trump supporter. I walked into her living room in rural Ohio one summer weekend with an open mind, and I'm grateful she offered the same in return.

Brooke Baldwin

I grew up knowing my grandfather had served our country for decades in the Navy, buried in his whites in Arlington; I have family members who are veterans.

Brooke Baldwin

When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.

Brooke Baldwin

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

Brooke Baldwin

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.'

Brooke Baldwin

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

Brooke Baldwin

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.

Brooke Baldwin

I got my first migraine on my first day of work in TV in 2001... it was debilitating.

Brooke Baldwin

I actually love being a little older and doing this wedding thing. At 38, I know what I like and what I don't.

Brooke Baldwin

I'll never forget coming home after covering Sandy Hook. Seeing the faces of family members. The firefighters who could never unsee the unthinkable. Those tiny caskets. I came home, sat in my dark apartment because I didn't even bother to turn the lights on, and wept.

Brooke Baldwin

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.

Brooke Baldwin

My drive comes from my parents and from Westminster.

Brooke Baldwin

It's important to stay a human, to be a journalist, to be a human covering the stories and trying as best as I can to put myself in their shoes, to be respectful, to just listen.

Brooke Baldwin

When I'm covering a story, it's not just about gathering facts, but it's gathering the human element as well.

Brooke Baldwin

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

Brooke Baldwin

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

Brooke Baldwin