After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all:… — 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 Image
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
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 Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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