The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
After that [father's death] I never cried with any real conviction, nor expected much of anyone's God except indifference, nor loved deeply without fear that it would cost me dearly in pain. At the age of five I had become… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker Copy Share
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. — Russell Baker Copy Share
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share
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… — Russell Baker Copy Share
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens… — Russell Baker Copy Share
After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing… — Russell Baker Copy Share
American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White… — Russell Baker Copy Share
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. — Russell Baker Copy Share
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. — Russell Baker Copy Share
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is — Russell Baker Copy Share
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading,… — Russell Baker Copy Share
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. — Russell Baker Copy Share
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