Author: Murray Kempton

Quotes

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

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

- Murray Kempton

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

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

- Murray Kempton

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Murray Kempton

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