That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We've had parallel lives. And frankly, I prefer mine to his. I would not like to be George Bush. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious. — Gore Vidal Copy Share
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
“One of the problems of a society as tightly controlled as ours is that we get so little information about what those of our… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
