That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
GORE VIDALDoes one ever read a politician’s books?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
-
-
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
GORE VIDAL -
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.
GORE VIDAL -
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
GORE VIDAL -
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
GORE VIDAL -
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
GORE VIDAL -
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
GORE VIDAL -
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
GORE VIDAL -
Never have children, only grandchildren.
GORE VIDAL -
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
GORE VIDAL -
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
GORE VIDAL -
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 VIDAL -
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
GORE VIDAL -
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
GORE VIDAL -
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
GORE VIDAL -
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
GORE VIDAL