Urges Quotes by Russell Baker

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No…

— Russell Baker

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

— Russell Baker

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Russell Baker

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

— Russell Baker

Serious journalism need not be solemn.

— Russell Baker

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

— Russell Baker