“For touching a people who want to forget ugly problems, no politician equals the one who has already forgotten them himself.”
“One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.”
Murray Kempton
“The faces in New York remind me of people who had played a game and lost.”
Murray Kempton
“Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon.”
Murray Kempton
“If you talk to gangsters long enough, you’ll find out they’re just as bad as respectable people.”
Murray Kempton
“In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan.”
Murray Kempton