Gore Vidal

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

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. ”

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. ”

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years. ”

The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. ”

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. ”

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. ”

An important governorship used to be the best springboard for would-be presidents. ”

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. ”

I am only at home in the present. ”