Dana Bash

“To be sure, not all women are looking for a partner.”

“I always carry snacks in my bag. It's a good habit to have now that I am a mom.”

“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.”

“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?”

“Women, whatever their profession, tend to have a harder time feeling ready for a job, even though in most cases they are more than prepared.”

“I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.”

“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.”

“One of the things I love most about the Capitol Hill beat is that I have regular access to the lawmakers I cover.”

“There is nothing more important than hard work.”

“I covered the White House during the Bush years when Ari Fleischer, Scott McClellan and Dana Perino were at the podium. We thought those were, at times, crazy press briefings, asking questions about major events like the Iraq War and the leaking of Valerie Plame's name and the outing of her as a CIA operative.”

“It's hard to be on TV, it's really hard.”

“Learning things that are interesting and other people would find interesting is the biggest rush.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is our job to ask the questions that make everybody uncomfortable.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.”

“I'm old enough to remember when Republicans loved the CBO because it tells the conservatives the thing that matters most to them which is how much is it going to cost taxpayers.”