Corporations must pay tax.
GORE VIDALWhy not just eliminate the federal income tax?
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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I am only at home in the present.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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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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