A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
About Murray Kempton
James Murray Kemptonwas an American journalist and social and political commentator. He won a National Book Award in 1974for The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
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We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who’s down.
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
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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.
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