All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
GORE VIDALThe American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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