Murray Kempton Quotes


"A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature."
- Murray Kempton
(Related: Faith, Nature, Human nature)

"A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up."
- Murray Kempton
"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
(Related: Life, Evil, Man)

"No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting."
- Murray Kempton
"The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost."
- Murray Kempton
(Related: People, 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."
- Murray Kempton
(Related: Idea)

"We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down."
- Murray Kempton
(Related: Government, Laws, Man)

"It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience."
- Murray Kempton
(Related: Government)