Gore Vidal States Quotations

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.