Russell Baker Quotes

I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

I've been a pretty impatient driver my entire life.

Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe.

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

I always drive like a madman.

And they do tend to be fast and up, because that's how I like to drive.

I get road rage. I can't drive because I cuss people out.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'

It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.

My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

Sometimes motorists do irrational things.

I drive relatively fast - within the remits of the law, obviously - but I struggle with people who do stupid things on the road. I have a massive urge to shout expletives at them.

Driving in Chicago wins over New York; people are so fast. It's almost like there's a subliminal street racing culture here. They drive like comic book characters.

I'm a bit of a reckless driver.

There's definitely guys out there that you don't like, and they'll try to crash you anytime they can't get around you.

Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.

I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster.

There are only two types of motorists: the idiots who drive slower than me, and the lunatics who go faster.

A cop stopped me for speeding/ He said, 'Why were you going so fast?' I said, 'See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing [mimes steering wheel]? This steers it'

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

My least favorite thing about New York is probably the traffic. I hate it. The people are such aggressive drivers here, they're horrible.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

I used to have a road-rage issue.