Gore Vidal Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Country, Law

• Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

  Gore Vidal

  Life, Running, Native American

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 17, 2010

• It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night.

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Mean, Home

  "Gore Vidal, Novelist of U.S. Past Sees an Empire Replacing Republic He So Admired". Interview with Robert Scheer, www.latimes.com. December 15, 1991.

• It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

  Gore Vidal

  Running, Country, Blow

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