The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — 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
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Though Americans talk a good deal about the virtue of being serious, they generally prefer people who are solemn over people who… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. — 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
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to… — 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
