Top 200 Quotes by Gore Vidal

My family is Southern. I'm used to Bill Clintons.

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.