That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
GORE VIDALI’m always an optimist!
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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I 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.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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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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