Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. – Gore Vidal
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, hes been bought ten times over. – 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
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think youre a great writer, you must say that you are. – Gore Vidal