Murray Kempton

Murray Kempton

James Murray Kempton (December 16, 1917 – May 5, 1997) was an American journalist and social and political commentator who received the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.

Quotes

• One does not attend this movie; one enlists in it.
  • "Serpents on the Nile," a review of The Ten Commandments (1956)

• The faces in New York remind me of people who had played a game and lost. ^{[citation needed]}

• Great care has gone into the construction of the shadow which declares itself to be Richard Nixon. ^{[citation needed]}

• If you talk to gangsters long enough, you’ll find out they’re just as bad as respectable people. ^{[citation needed]}

• In baseball, the true class enemy is not the boss, but the fan. ^{[citation needed]}

• 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.
  • murray kempton : Latest news, Breaking news headlines. Scoopnest (2011-05-18).

• For touching a people who want to forget ugly problems, no politician equals the one who has already forgotten them himself.
  • On Ronald Reagan’s presidency ^{[citation needed]}