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.


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


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


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


 * 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.


 * 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