"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."
― Russell Baker
Topic(s):
Government
More From Russell Baker
- "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."
- "Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
- "A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man’s pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul."
More In Government
- "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
- "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is."― Noel Coward
- "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."― Ron Paul