When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
GORE VIDALThe Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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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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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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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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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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