"You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there’s a big photo opportunity for a really good cause."
― Russell Baker
Topic(s):
Government
More From Russell Baker
- "Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
- "Listen once in a while. It’s amazing what you can hear."
- "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."
More In Government
- "It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth."― Jimmy Carter
- "Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence."― Milton Friedman
- "I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We’ve come to take our government back."― Rand Paul