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" By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. "
Gore Vidal
He
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Been
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" I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. "
Gore Vidal
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" Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself. "
Gore Vidal
Life
Done
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" I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket. "
Sachin Tendulkar
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Life
" If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. "
William Tecumseh Sherman
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Run
Serve
" Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking. "
Jimmy Fallon
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Job
Thinking
" Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing. "
Gore Vidal
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Run
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" One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. "
Plato
Politics
End
Being
" Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. "
Sun Yat-sen
Only
Remember
Party
" No sooner does an American president take his oath of office than the speculation begins: Will he be reelected in four years' time? If not, who will succeed him? A member of his own party? The other party? "
Gore Vidal
Time
Office
American
" Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. "
Christopher Lasch
Politics
Religion
Right
" I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns. "
Kamala Harris
Start
Politics
I Am
" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "
Samuel Johnson
You
Walk
Politics
" 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. "
Gore Vidal
Country
Media
Dissent
" There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. "
Vladimir Lenin
Only
Politics
Morals
" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "
Gore Vidal
My Own
Grandfather
Book
" My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. "
Woodrow Wilson
Politics
My Life
Life
" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "
Gore Vidal
Desire
Life
Adolescence
" These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that. "
Bruce Rauner
Politics
Try
Business
" Without alienation, there can be no politics. "
Arthur Miller
Without
Politics
Alienation
" Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Politics
Smart
Person
" 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. "
Gore Vidal
Spirit
Exercise
True
" Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney. "
Bob Iger
Giving Back
Giving
Back
" I am so pleased and happy, and I believe that the Almighty God has a plan for our nation by putting us in strategic positions in politics, business, and everywhere. "
Yemi Osinbajo
Politics
I Am
Business
" Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. "
Hunter S. Thompson
Politics
Long
Journalism
" I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. "
Steven Seagal
Politics
Morals
Know
" What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. "
David Lloyd George
Sea
Storms
Politics
" If you choose to put political expediency and politics ahead of the men and women on the ground, for that, you'll have to answer to yourself. I find it morally reprehensible. "
Mike Pompeo
You
Women
Politics
" I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. "
George Soros
Involved
Would
Prefer
" In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time. "
Malala Yousafzai
Time
Politics
Every
" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. "
P. J. O'Rourke
First
Buying
Things