A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.
Gore VidalI was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.
Gore VidalAll I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
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