Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. – Gore Vidal
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. – Gore Vidal
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. – Gore Vidal
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. – Gore Vidal
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. – Charles Krauthammer