Russell Baker Quotes & Sayings

62 most famous Russell Baker quotes and sayings (journalist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”

“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.”

“Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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