Russell Baker Quotes

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

Education, Best, Person

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Russell Baker

Parenting, Children, May

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Russell Baker

Bad, Sunday, Together

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

Nature, Power, Summer

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Russell Baker

Age, Children, Parents

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker

Science, Work, Lost

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Russell Baker

Company, Longer, Misery

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

Politics, Humanity, Reason

Americans like fat books and thin women.
Russell Baker

Women, Fat, Books

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Russell Baker

America, Masses, Opiate

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker

Enjoy, Left, Seem

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, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.
Russell Baker

Change, Said, Few

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Russell Baker

Poetry, Lonely, Between

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
Russell Baker

Crisis, After, Wanted

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
Russell Baker

Amazing, Once, While

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Russell Baker

Him, Goal, Defeat

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 when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
Russell Baker

War, Alone, Single

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Russell Baker

Car, Two, Possible

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
Russell Baker

History, Soul, Makes

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.
Russell Baker

Father, Friend, Writing

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 political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.
Russell Baker

Time, Good, Political

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 in 2001.
Russell Baker

Victory, American, House

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Russell Baker

Poetry, Through, Public

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

Business, Evil, Humanity

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.
Russell Baker

May, Caution, Hazardous

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Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 14, 1925

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