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Should Quotes by Gore Vidal
- Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them…
- When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
- Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the…
- It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.
- I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.
- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
- The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country…
- Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none…
- We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I… — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. — Richard Armour
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe