{"author":"Russell Baker","author_id":"Russell+Baker","total_quotes":31,"quotes":[{"text":"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["progress","done","terrible "],"id":395,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's 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.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["business","writing "],"id":14648,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["fun","small","lost "],"id":52994,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["education"],"id":64959,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"When compelled to cook  I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["vices","foibles"],"id":101962,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"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.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["loss","through","little "],"id":105525,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["corruption","crime","criminal","criminals","humor","hypocrisy","immoral","immorality","mafia","moral","morality","organized-crime","politicians","politics","religion"],"id":120965,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"I've had an unhappy life  thank God.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["adversity"],"id":145549,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["listen","you","hear "],"id":150061,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime  and should be taken in small doses.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["happiness"],"id":157184,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}