That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
GORE VIDALThe only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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I can understand companionship.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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