Words matter. These are the best Dana Bash Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I have covered Pelosi for years, and always wondered how she learned to operate and excel in politics the way she does.
In 1967, my mother – then Francie Weinman – graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a network affiliate.
I would never say, as a member of the press, that there should be fewer press briefings. The more access, the better, no matter who is there or what’s going on.
I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.
I am 5 feet 1 3/4 inches. Often when I meet people who have only seen me on TV they say, ‘I always thought you were so much taller!’
There is nothing more important than hard work.
I love covering politics at that early stage where you can walk up to Mike Huckabee, who gets out of his car by himself. A car that he drove, who just walks up and talks to you because that’s the only way he can get his message out.
One of the benefits of being a woman is I don’t have to put on a black suit. I could do it, but why do it if you don’t have to?
Cable TV? Stressful? Never.
My brother and I thought we were Donny and Marie, without the talent.
I always carry snacks in my bag. It’s a good habit to have now that I am a mom.
It is our job to ask the questions that make everybody uncomfortable.
The John McCain I first started to get to know in earnest was the one who had just returned to the U.S. Senate after losing the 2000 Republican presidential primary.
To have or not to have kids, when to have them, and whether we working women can ‘have it all’ has been debated, discussed, and examined since the washing machine and the TV dinner began to free up many mothers to even consider leaving the home as a viable option.
When you report on Wall Street and health-care reform… what could be more relevant to people’s lives?
When you are being anti-lie or pro-truth, you come across as being anti-Trump or pro-Democrat, and it’s a very tough thing for those of us who are just working journalists and still believe in the notion of objectivity.
Remarkable technological and medical advances allowed me to be a mom. But it is expensive and not always a viable or effective option.
Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.
I went through years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, first in my hometown of D.C., then in New York City, where it finally happened – I got pregnant with my son, my miracle boy.
For all the interviews Pelosi does, she doesn’t talk often about her struggles and challenges as a woman.
For years Pelosi has been the ultimate Republican boogeyman – or boogeywoman, as it were. She’s a frequent target of Republican ire for being too far to the left – and she’s also a target among progressives for not being far left enough.
I feel incredibly blessed that I’m in my generation and not my mother’s generation. I feel that I’m very much benefitting from the strides that the women before me made.
I went to elementary school in Falls Church, Va.
Whether she planned it or not, the path that Pelosi took to the House is the one most women used to follow. Women raised their kids, and then they went into politics.
One dress I love – for me, it’s a little edgy – it’s sleeveless. It’s black and it’s leather. I’ve worn it on TV.
