VIDAL, GORE : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich.
VIDAL, GORE : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisefor the poor and socialism for the rich.
VIDAL, GORE : The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country -- and we haven't seen them since.
VIDAL, GORE : Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.
VIDAL, GORE : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprisfor the poor and socialism for the rich.
VIDAL, GORE : The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity -- much less dissent.
VIDAL, GORE : It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them.
VIDAL, GORE : The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country -- and we haven't seen them since.
VIDAL, GORE : A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.