Russell Baker Quotes

United States, Journalist
August 14, 1925 – January, 21, 2019.

Russell Wayne Baker is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography Growing Up (1982). He was a columnist for The New York Times from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992 to 2004.

Also known as Writer

I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

Russell Baker
- Life
- Unhappy
Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Russell Baker
- Done
- Age
- Military

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

Russell Baker
- Made
- Queens
Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

Russell Baker
- Honesty
- Cities
- Left
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Russell Baker
- Journalism
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

Russell Baker
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
- Poverty
- Grandmother
- Poor
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
- Pieces
- Glorious
- Rhetoric

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

Russell Baker
- Summer
- Suffer
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
- Birthday
- Plenty