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title: "2 Foreign Correspondent Quotes By Russell Baker"
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> [It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/it-was-queen-elizabeth-who-made-me-a-foreign-correspondent/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/like-all-young-reporters-brilliant-or-hopelessly-incompetent-i/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

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## More by Russell Baker

> [Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/unpleasant-questions-are-being-raised-about-mother-s-day-is-this-day/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/the-people-who-are-always-hankering-loudest-for-some-golden/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/in-writing-punctuation-plays-the-role-of-body-language-it-helps/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/kingsley-amis-was-one-of-a-trio-of-brilliant-comic-novelists-who-made/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/life-seemed-to-be-an-educator-s-practical-joke-in-which-you-spent-the/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/i-gave-up-on-new-poetry-myself-30-years-ago-when-most-of-it-began-to/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/after-two-years-studying-what-rewrite-men-did-with-the-facts-i-phoned/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/american-foreign-policy-had-still-not-recovered-from-its-victory-over/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/anything-that-isn-t-opposed-by-about-40-percent-of-humanity-is-either/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/when-you-re-the-only-pea-in-the-pod-your-parents-are-likely-to-get/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [Serious journalism need not be solemn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/serious-journalism-need-not-be-solemn/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/ireland-really-is-my-problem-the-breaking-point-of-the-huge/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/journalism-talk-is-part-of-the-nonstop-background-noise-of-american/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/an-educated-person-is-one-who-has-learned-that-information-almost/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

> [The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-baker/the-best-discussion-of-trouble-in-boardroom-and-business-office-is/)

[Russell Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-baker/)

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