I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
GORE VIDALIt 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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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 never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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On 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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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 essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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I can understand companionship.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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