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Murray Kempton Quotes

«The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost»
Author: Murray Kempton | Keywords: remind, The Faces
«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»
Author: Murray Kempton | About: Ideas | Keywords: adulterate, adulterated, fashionable
«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»
Author: Murray Kempton | About: Life
«A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up»
Author: Murray Kempton | Keywords: beaten-up, beat up
«No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting»
«It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.»
«A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.»
«We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.»
«He is fresh and everyone else is tired.»