Best Russell Baker Quotes
- Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product. Journalism
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. Amis
- Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder. All
- People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Age
- Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. Age
- Serious journalism need not be solemn. Journalism
- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. American
- The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. Fun
- Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president,… American
- Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished… Alone
- A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant… Assassination
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House… American
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day… Computer
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the… Clearly
- Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… All
- My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head… Been
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. American
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie… Actor
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a… All
- The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be… Any
- There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly… Business
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but… American
- When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they… Ambitious
- In America nothing dies easier than tradition. America
- So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies… Agonies