Don Lemon

“The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.”

“I'm a citizen of the world.”

“Think about just how much we'd get accomplished if we collectively viewed the people with whom we came into contact as just an American and not an American with a prefix.”

“Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.”

“When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.”

“It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.”

“Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.”

“I was born gay, just as I was born black.”

“Just because you can have a baby, it doesn't mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first.”

“I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.”

“Can the president really blame Fox News for his problems?”

“When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.”

“I'm not concerned with what people think of me.”

“I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.”

“Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.”

“Learn to love being black.”

“I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.”

“There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!”

“If I had had someone like me who had chosen to live their lives out and proud, there would be no need for the Tyler Clementis of the world.”

“I do feel that Paula Deen should not have lost her job, and I've said this on the air. The marketplace should have decided. The marketplace decided something different. Her books are No. 1.”