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GORE VIDALOn 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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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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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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