Quote by Russell Baker
Reporters thrive on the worlds misfortune. For this reason they of

Reporters thrive on the worlds misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker

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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. – Russell Baker

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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. – Russell Baker

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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to ones beloved. – Russell Baker

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Im not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics. – John Key

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