"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.“


-Gore Vidal

posted in politics


Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."

-Gore Vidal

workView Quote
"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."

-Gore Vidal

timeView Quote
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."

-Gore Vidal

timeView Quote
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

-Gore Vidal

sadView Quote
"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

-Gore Vidal

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

-Gore Vidal

politicsView Quote

More Quotes About politics

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."

-H. Rap Brown

politicsView Quote
"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."

-Mark Udall

politicsView Quote
"The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something."

-Eric Sevareid

politicsView Quote
"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."

-Richard Dreyfuss

politicsView Quote
"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."

-George Crook

politicsView Quote
"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."

-Gary Ackerman

politicsView Quote