Gore Vidal Quotes on Leadership
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that peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.
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The average 'educated' American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. That is why it is not really possible to compare a writer like Howells with any living American writer because Howells thought that it was a good thing to know as much as possible about his own country as well as other countries while our writers today, in common with the presidents and paint manufacturers, live in a present without past among signs whose meanings are uninterpretable.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them, either.