Murray Kempton Quotes

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Murray Kempton

Men, Beauty, Best

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Murray Kempton

Government, Explain, Function

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
Murray Kempton

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
Murray Kempton

Faith, Nature, Political

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Murray Kempton

Great, Scoundrel

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
Murray Kempton

Game, Lost, Played

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Murray Kempton

Idea, Point, Hardly

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
Murray Kempton

Government, Down, Find

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
Murray Kempton

Life, Good, Evil

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 16, 1917

Died: May 5, 1997

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