Quote by Russell Baker
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day i

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 didnt know. – Russell Baker

Other quotes by Russell Baker

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting mans pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. – Russell Baker

Category:
History
Read Quote

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalisms problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. – Russell Baker

Category:
Business
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Change
category

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Change

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. – Barbara de Angelis

Category:
Change

I dont think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. – Richard M. Nixon

Category:
Change

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. – Emma Goldman

Category:
Change

Random Quotes

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people… to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. – Kofi Annan

Category:
Leadership

Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife. – Proverb

Category:
Marriage

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader

Category:
Leadership

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry