Famous Quotes

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

Gore Vidal on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Gore Vidal

• "It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

• "As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

• "Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."

• "In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it."

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