Quote by Gore Vidal
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half neve

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

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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

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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, hes been bought ten times over. – Gore Vidal

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. – Gore Vidal

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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. – William E. Gladstone, 1866

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Ive done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before. – Frank Luntz

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Vote for the man who promises least hell be the least disappointing. – Bernard Baruch

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So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics. – Steve Case

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