Gore Vidal Quotes

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.