Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.
Gore VidalThe most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
Gore VidalI think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.
Gore Vidal