What we're proposing is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the classroom. The difference is we start with accountability, we don't end with accountability.
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Related She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Gore's attack on the Texas education system is a thinly veiled attempt to discredit the education re... DAN BARTLETT We have developed a program with a lot of accountability. JOE BERNAL We want to make sure that there is accountability. DENISE BOTTCHER The accountability rests with me. SKIP PROSSER We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a n... EARL BLUMENAUER This is not the end. It's never the end. It won't end until we get accountability and responsibility... SALLY REGENHARD It's a matter of balancing convenience with taking the time to sit down and eat something healthy. W... DR. CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR Al Gore has been a vocal supporter of environmental issues. We are appealing to Al Gore to use his p... ROBIN SCHNEIDER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Transparency with accountability inculcates sense of responsibility & trustworthiness. Trustworthine... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL Senator Bradley is choosing to be an echo to Al Gore's voice in proposing policy that Al Gore has al... CHRIS LEHANE I think it helps focus students on being accountable for what they have to learn. It also focuses ac... JUDY JEFFREY If you guys are upset that Al Gore is endorsing me, attack me, don't attack Al Gore, ... I think Al ... HOWARD DEAN Less is more, unless you're Al Gore. UNKNOWN Godliness with contentment is rare. CRAIG GROESCHEL On the day of accountability, there is no partiality. FAGBAYIMU SAMSON ADEOLA We become the single point of accountability. JEFFREY WADE If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transpa... MELISSA BEAN What good is [Al] Gore if he can't beat Bush? I mean, Gore is beating Gore. RALPH NADER The election of Nov. 2 was not George Bush's accountability moment. This is George Bush's accountabi... CINDY SHEEHAN The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN But these processes have been distorted by the prime minister. So in the end, we have an elected pol... ABHISIT VEJJAJIVA Al Gore thinks he is entitled to your votes. Al Gore thinks that we're supposed to be helping him ge... RALPH NADER We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federa... MIKE QUIGLEY I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me. STEPHEN BALDWIN But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to ... MELISSA BEAN Accountability is the glue that bonds commitment to results. WILL CRAIG, LIVING THE HERO'S JOURNEY We need transparency, and we certainly need accountability. KRISTEN BREITWEISER There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start p... JOHN MILLER The enemy of accountability is ambiguity PATRICK LENCIONI Accountability is the measure of a leaders height. JEFFREY BENJAMIN It is difficult -- if not impossible -- in certain areas to achieve what we consider the appropriate... TOM LYNCH Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil... MARGARET SPELLINGS The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Accountability on a universal scale can come at a global cost, the truth is free JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Al Gore, unlike George Bush, is not afraid to disagree with his friends. KYM SPELL Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. MARGARET MITCHELL Bush, Congress, the mayor — each of them are symptoms of a bigger problem, that we don't have acco... MICHAEL CHERTOFF There are issues such as what are we going to do with this enormous (budget) surplus that we have. I... BILL BRADLEY Communication leads to buy-in which fosters ownership and accountability. Accountability gives you r... EDITH HUNTER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future SOTONYE ANGA Weiner said in a statement last week. ''We must make sure this ruling is enforced to make sure that ... ANTHONY WEINER If Romeo can do 'Dancing with the Stars,' anything is possible. ROMEO MILLER Charter schools, as a matter of law, have always been exempted from the accountability system, and t... KATHY WALT I dont know what was wrong with us. Either we were nervous or were just not that good. ALEX HERNANDEZ There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN I think the Gore campaign has made an enormous issue of the fact that George is not smart, ... Did A... BARBARA BUSH But he can't go out on the court and play. We have to take some accountability as players. ADRIAN GRIFFIN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability i... STEPHEN HARPER Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military. PHIL KLAY What we're concerned about is accountability and justice being afforded to these victims of a crime. ANITA SANCHEZ Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. ANITA BROOKNER Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparen... VALERIE PLAME The taxpayers deserve accountability. BYRON DORGAN These issues are not academic or peripheral -- they directly affect every mutual fund investor. ... ... ARTHUR LEVITT We don't have to do this to get accredited, but when (North Central) reviews the materials they look... ROBERT EDMUNDS It takes us getting on the track to get that accountability of speed. ROB PARISH No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability. MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I think [Bush] probably broke the law here, but we need to know why they did it this way and what th... RUSS FEINGOLD What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER It is clear that the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its la... ROY COOPER We've provided information on lodging, financial assistance and we've matched military people with p... CHRISTINE PARKER With this new structure, we will not only focus accountability but focus our company, which will hel... BRAD ANDERSON There is no accountability in soft money. None. ZACK WAMP Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it. YOUSEF MUNAYYER What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around Geo... STUART ROTHENBERG All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was ... STEVE BALLMER Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework wi... RAVI ZACHARIAS Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error. DAVID BRIN It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done. SONNY LANDHAM Water flows because it's willing. MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead. JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic. SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing. MARGARET MITCHELL The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everythin... CRISS JAMI The accountability must be there. GARY WADLER When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls... PAULA POUNDSTONE What it shows is what we've been saying all along -- there is no question that the majority of peopl... RON KLAIN I've never seen a process start with such a comprehensive approach and as open as this process promi... BOB BROOKS We will make accountability determinations for schools in April or early May. GAIL TAYLOR While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe t... RUBEN HINOJOSA We dragged him to a lecture by Al Gore, kicking and screaming, ROGER AILES When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, i... DAVID LABAHN To be elected president, Al Gore needs the economy and the markets firing on all cylinders. Al Gore ... ETHAN SIEGAL
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I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co... AL GORE A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. AL GORE During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. AL GORE The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c... AL GORE Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. AL GORE How could this [Y2K] be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? AL GORE No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glo... AL GORE When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the... AL GORE I think his legacy is going to be the natural environment, improving the green spaces of our country... AL GORE The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up al... AL GORE The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake. The worst thing we can possib... AL GORE Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume th... AL GORE to mend some fences, both literally and figuratively. AL GORE The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work ... AL GORE The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up... AL GORE I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America. AL GORE I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is g... AL GORE Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. AL GORE Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls ... AL GORE In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscene... AL GORE Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorr... AL GORE As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil ... AL GORE I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. AL GORE Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a c... AL GORE I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and g... AL GORE Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain... AL GORE I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin ... AL GORE Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We ha... AL GORE Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital informat... AL GORE There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dram... AL GORE I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoev... AL GORE Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could ev... AL GORE I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are ... AL GORE As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyd... AL GORE There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to ... AL GORE The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for chan... AL GORE If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don... AL GORE I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fash... AL GORE The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The q... AL GORE The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known an... AL GORE The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice ... AL GORE If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil... AL GORE There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the... AL GORE The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts. AL GORE George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun ris... AL GORE I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be importan... AL GORE We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may ... AL GORE When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary ... AL GORE The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into... AL GORE The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis ha... AL GORE We are thrilled our prayers have been answered and that Molly and her companions are safe. AL GORE For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any ... AL GORE To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit. AL GORE Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativi... AL GORE How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? AL GORE I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase i... AL GORE a river ran through it. AL GORE Make no mistake about it. The leadership of Bill Clinton is making a huge difference for the childre... AL GORE We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. AL GORE the only way to avoid having a cloud over the next president is to count all the votes AL GORE I don't think NAEP scores give a broad enough view of what is happening in the schools, AL GORE I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted,... AL GORE There's a good chance the election could be decided definitively by Tuesday night's debate, AL GORE [The Texas governor on Tuesday told CBS's] 60 Minutes II ... 'We've run the string, we've done all w... AL GORE What we do know about that pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president... AL GORE As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to ... come up with... AL GORE I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again. AL GORE Steve and his team have done an incredible job in making Apple once again the very best in the world... AL GORE Who are these people? (To a tour guide at Monticello after seeing busts of George Washington and Ben... AL GORE At the base of our involvement in research lies the trust of American people and the integrity of th... AL GORE As the campaign moves forward and when appropriate, I will have more to say about this. AL GORE If you are with your running mate on stage and the crowd is cheering, you know, you just say whateve... AL GORE I have been surprised at the amount of commentary and reaction to it. I really have, because to me, ... AL GORE I think he [George W. Bush] has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more ... AL GORE I invented the internet. AL GORE I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. AL GORE We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country... AL GORE did not have to take the election away form Al Gore: He and his campaign gave it away themselves. AL GORE If you are going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first AL GORE The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every... AL GORE There's a big difference between the two parties, Bradley said. AL GORE While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in th... AL GORE Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmen... AL GORE I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two f... AL GORE The New Ham Radio. AL GORE We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. AL GORE I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be importan... AL GORE This agreement will serve as both a tribute to a true American hero who led our nation through its d... AL GORE I am not going to accept that label. AL GORE Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame. AL GORE I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences... AL GORE I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. AL GORE There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of fut... AL GORE People will not put their faith, their trust or their cash into electronic commerce if they feel tha... AL GORE The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the... AL GORE CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope,... AL GORE I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either. AL GORE As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a s... AL GORE A zebra does not change its spots. AL GORE I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the p... AL GORE Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causin... AL GORE As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first... AL GORE China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has plante... AL GORE Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, 'Well, so-and-so will like this,' which ... GORE VIDAL McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject. GORE VIDAL I can understand companionship. GORE VIDAL Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He u... GORE VIDAL The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. GORE VIDAL What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose p... GORE VIDAL The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them ... GORE VIDAL As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a pol... GORE VIDAL The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No Fi... GORE VIDAL At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some eviden... GORE VIDAL Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. GORE VIDAL I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy. GORE VIDAL I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ... GORE VIDAL Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. GORE VIDAL Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness witho... GORE VIDAL Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, an... GORE VIDAL That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness... GORE VIDAL Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. GORE VIDAL For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar... GORE VIDAL Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is... GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence... GORE VIDAL Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. GORE VIDAL It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Fr... GORE VIDAL I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. GORE VIDAL There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosex... GORE VIDAL Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex cer... GORE VIDAL I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tos... ARIEL GORE The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. GORE VIDAL Never have children, only grand children. GORE VIDAL Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described,... GORE VIDAL I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you ... GORE VIDAL When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a C... GORE VIDAL How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time... GORE VIDAL There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master... GORE VIDAL Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is a... GORE VIDAL The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No Fi... GORE VIDAL You're talking to someone who really understands rock music. TIPPER GORE For half a century, photography has been the art form of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are... GORE VIDAL As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill... GORE VIDAL There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. GORE VIDAL If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives ... GORE VIDAL Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the... GORE VIDAL Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an... GORE VIDAL Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning wh... GORE VIDAL It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imag... GORE VIDAL Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. GORE VIDAL In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, ... GORE VIDAL To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours,... GORE VIDAL I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. GORE VIDAL If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual live... GORE VIDAL Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn. GORE VIDAL All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which ... GORE VIDAL Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence t... GORE VIDAL It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we... GORE VIDAL It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. GORE VIDAL Settling other people's land is an American tradition. ARIEL GORE I'm a born-again atheist. GORE VIDAL Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes i... GORE VIDAL There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. GORE VIDAL Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. GORE VIDAL It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real trag... GORE VIDAL We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us th... GORE VIDAL For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, t... GORE VIDAL I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash. KRISTIN GORE I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about ... ARIEL GORE On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a deb... GORE VIDAL My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animat... GORE VERBINSKI My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something y... GORE VERBINSKI Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor... GORE VERBINSKI If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shar... GORE VERBINSKI Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. GORE VIDAL When I write a song, I always start on acoustic guitar, because that's a good test of a song, wh... MARTIN GORE The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body... KRISTIN GORE In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set... KRISTIN GORE When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts ... ARIEL GORE Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a... GORE VIDAL I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for m... GORE VIDAL I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. GORE VIDAL Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. GORE VIDAL I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h... ARIEL GORE The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th... GORE VIDAL Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. GORE VIDAL As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill... GORE VIDAL There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Repu... GORE VIDAL To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not al... GORE VIDAL By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Re... GORE VIDAL It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars. GORE VIDAL Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t... GORE VIDAL Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunatel... MARTIN GORE I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased beha... GORE VIDAL Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete w... GORE VIDAL As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to ... LESLEY GORE Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf... GORE VIDAL Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the... GORE VIDAL