by | Dec 16, 2018 | Russell Baker
“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,... by | Dec 13, 2018 | Russell Baker
“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.”-Russell Baker by | Nov 9, 2018 | 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... by | Nov 8, 2018 | Russell Baker
“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... by | Nov 4, 2018 | Russell Baker
“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... by | Nov 4, 2018 | Russell Baker
“Americans like fat books and thin women.”-Russell Baker