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Murray Kempton
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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.
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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
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