Dana Milbank Quotations

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a funeral of a soldier who has fallen in Iraq.

Living in the capital, I worry about terrorism, but I no longer panic. For this I have my child to thank.

I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that the terrorists are not very sophisticated.

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.

By journalistic custom and D.C. law, of course, reporters don't carry guns to news conferences -- and certainly not when the person at the lectern is the NRA's Asa Hutchinson, an unremarkable former congressman and Bush administration official whom most reporters couldn't pick out of a lineup. But the NRA wasn't going to leave any doubt about its superior firepower.

One man's amnesty, of course, is another man's 'earned citizenship.'

We're one of the most reviled subsets of one of the most reviled professions. We're going to lose the battle every time.

this has been an elaborate exercise in navel gazing.

It was a delicate act: Celebrating debate and criticism while declaring that a key element of that debate -- whether the administration exaggerated prewar intelligence about Iraq -- is off-limits. But Cheney achieved it with matter-of-fact indignation.

For newspapers at this point, it's not about persevering, it's about surviving.