The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
GORE VIDALI 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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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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We’re not a democracy.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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I hate nobody.
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Love is not my bag.
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