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Russell Baker

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker power
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
— Russell Baker men
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
— Russell Baker you
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
— Russell Baker you
It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
— Russell Baker sin
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.
— Russell Baker writing
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
— Russell Baker children
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
— Russell Baker church
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
— Russell Baker work
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
— Russell Baker progress
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
— Russell Baker humanity
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
— Russell Baker being
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
— Russell Baker humor
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.
— Russell Baker time
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
— Russell Baker life
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
— Russell Baker war
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
— Russell Baker work
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.
— Russell Baker good
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
— Russell Baker war
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
— Russell Baker death
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
— Russell Baker comedy
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
— Russell Baker writing
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
— Russell Baker writing
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
— Russell Baker life
My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
— Russell Baker dark

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