Political Quotes

Congress has long played a critical role in helping to advance the U.S. objective of a Europe whole, free, and at peace.

Baker has won two Pulitzer Prizes--one in 1979 for Distinguished Commentary and another in 1983 for his 1982 autobiography, 'Growing Up.'

Mr. President, Thomas Carlyle remarked, 'A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.' Truer words never were written, if construed as a double entendre, about my rare, dear friend, Russell Baker.

He concentrated on ordinary life as lived by ordinary middle-class Americans in the second half of the 20th century.