Chris Hansen

This is reporting the way I like it... in the field, gritty and aggressive.

— Chris Hansen

You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism?

— Chris Hansen

The first rule about security is that you never talk about security.

— Chris Hansen

We never had a female predator surface in our investigation.

— Chris Hansen

People let me into their lives, whether it's a tragic or victorious circumstance.

— Chris Hansen

I never knew before getting involved with these investigations that so much of this activity was going on. I mean, obviously there…

— Chris Hansen

I've done a lot of investigative reporting, and I've confronted a lot of people over the years, sometimes in dark, foreign places.…

— Chris Hansen

We created compelling television, and I think we exposed a lot of bad people who were preying on children. So if the…

— Chris Hansen

No one's arguing that the Internet is evil. But talking about strangers is another conversation you have to have with your kids.

— Chris Hansen

Every time I thought I've seen every possible scenario, something else comes up. You just have to be prepared at every level.

— Chris Hansen

People can say: Okay, it's not the old-fashioned traditional journalism that took place in the 'Houston Chronicle' in 1975 - it's different.…

— Chris Hansen

Clearly when there is a character based on you on 'South Park' or 'The Simpsons,' that is something that sticks with you…

— Chris Hansen

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how…

— Chris Hansen

There was a time not long ago when stories about Internet crimes were a tough sell for TV newsmagazines. Executive producers were…

— Chris Hansen

You know, I've had a lot of rewarding interviews. And, a lot of times, it's the connection you make with the family…

— Chris Hansen

As a parent who is also a journalist, when I talk to the brother and the sister of a victim or the…

— Chris Hansen

Dahvie Vanity is on our radar here at 'Have a Seat with Chris Hansen' and I promise you I'll take a really…

— Chris Hansen

When we began, we used chatrooms on AOL and Yahoo! and nowadays, we have dozens and dozens of ways to communicate. Technology…

— Chris Hansen

I'm honored to be a Juggalo, I really am.

— Chris Hansen

I owe my whole career to Howard Lancour.

— Chris Hansen

When we did the first 'To Catch a Predator' investigation, law enforcement wasn't involved at all. Until after the story aired.

— Chris Hansen

The buying and selling of women, girls and boys is a frightening modern day form of slavery that must be stopped.

— Chris Hansen

You don't want to fall into the trip of doing a 'Predator' story every week for the rest of our lives just…

— Chris Hansen

“It is time we stop believing in the GOD WENTRUST, andnstart believing in the God that trust us.”

— Chris Hansen

I mean just like the police don't tell me how to do the interviews, you know, we don't tell them how to…

— Chris Hansen

Our duty as concerned citizens is to educate ourselves so that we can recognize and report trafficking to the proper authorities.

— Chris Hansen

I am thrilled to join the extraordinary team at Crime Watch Daily. It's a perfect platform for enterprise reporting.

— Chris Hansen

It's not entrapment. Because the decoys never make the first move. Nor do they raise the issue of having sex. It's always…

— Chris Hansen

The key to being a good interviewer is to listen, no matter how heinous the act that person has committed, you have…

— Chris Hansen

There was only one investigation where some of the cases were not prosecuted. And that resulted from a disagreement between a police…

— Chris Hansen

You gotta do interviews every day, and they don't end well for some people, but I've never had one end where I…

— Chris Hansen

I think the 'Predator' franchise has been great on a number of levels. When it comes to online safety for kids, and…

— Chris Hansen