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
Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick. — 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
There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in… — 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
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects. — 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
The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and,… — 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
These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects. — 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. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one… — 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 Image
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 Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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