The 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.
GORE VIDALI can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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