It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
- Murray Kempton
Government, Own, Explain, Convenience
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
- Murray Kempton
Beauty, Strong, Men, Incapable
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.
- Murray Kempton
Think, Been, I Think, Hardly
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
- Murray Kempton
Go, Beat, Get, Neighborhood
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
- Murray Kempton
Great, Scoundrel, Ever, Uninteresting
The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
- Murray Kempton
Game, New York, New, Faces
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
- Murray Kempton
Nature, Away, Convention, Human Nature
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
- Murray Kempton
Government, Some, Laws, Hack
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
Look, Been, Sum, Confess
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