The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. Russell Baker Read Quote
Those who remember Washington’s cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan’s intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva – alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! – with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. Russell Baker Read Quote
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 Baker Read Quote
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, probably because he himself didn’t know. Russell Baker Read Quote
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. Russell Baker Read Quote
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible – cowards and fools. Russell Baker Read Quote