Murray Kempton Quotes

Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon.

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.

Donald Trump dresses his hatred up as though it were a peacock's feathers. In any polity entitled to think itself civilized, persons with regard for their breeding would leave the room politely but definitely whenever Donald Trump entered it.

In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan.

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

If you talk to gangsters long enough, you’ll find out they’re just as bad as respectable people.