Quote by Gore Vidal
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of t

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. – Gore Vidal

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. – Gore Vidal

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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. – Gore Vidal

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. – Jonathan Swift

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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. – Barbara Bush

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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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I didnt do improv in college, I never performed, I didnt do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. – Demetri Martin

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