"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
Topic(s):
Government
More From Russell Baker
- "Anything that isn’t opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn’t matter."
- "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 day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul."
More In Government
- "Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub."― Grover Norquist
- "The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we’re not apologetic about it."― Sargent Shriver
- "The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can’t be allowed to happen."― John Podhoretz