There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALI am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
-
-
Love is not my bag.
GORE VIDAL -
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
GORE VIDAL -
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
GORE VIDAL -
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
GORE VIDAL -
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
GORE VIDAL -
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
GORE VIDAL -
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
GORE VIDAL -
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
GORE VIDAL -
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
GORE VIDAL -
Gossip is conversation about people.
GORE VIDAL -
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
GORE VIDAL -
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
GORE VIDAL -
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
GORE VIDAL -
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
GORE VIDAL -
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
GORE VIDAL






