"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
― Russell Baker
Topic(s):
Government
More From Russell Baker
- "Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
- "Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O’Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
- "Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
More In Government
- "I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up."― Jim DeMint
- "Government shouldn’t tell you whom to marry."― Michael Bloomberg
- "I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in."― Eliot Spitzer