Russell Baker Quotes

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
Russell Baker

Politics, Business, Except

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.
Russell Baker

Good, Human, Hands

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
Russell Baker

Poor, Poverty, Born

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Russell Baker

Nothing, America, Tradition

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
Russell Baker

Love, Age, Yourself

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Russell Baker

Car, Down, Shot

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 of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
Russell Baker

Today, After, Young

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Russell Baker

Life, Law, American

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
Russell Baker

Made, Foreign, Queen

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
Russell Baker

After, Group, Public

It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.
Russell Baker

Time, Good, Yourself

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
Russell Baker

Life, Talk, American

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Russell Baker

Away, Journalism, Theory

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

Made, English, Literature

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 kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
Russell Baker

Important, Writing, Friends

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
Russell Baker

Life, Dreams, Women

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
Russell Baker

Live, Die, Publicity

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 for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
Russell Baker

Dark, After, Put

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
Russell Baker

Humor, Fun, Lost

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

Work, Lost, Down

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
Russell Baker

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Russell Baker

Poetry, School, Until

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.
Russell Baker

Age, Good, Knew

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
Russell Baker

Fear, Nothing, Wrong

Serious journalism need not be solemn.
Russell Baker

Serious, Journalism, Solemn

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Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: August 14, 1925

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