Russell Baker

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not…

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to…

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile…

Listen once in a while. It’s amazing what you can hear…

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to…

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They…

Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do…

Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure…

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama…

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and…

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it…

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism…

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers’ own…

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools…

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began…