GORE VIDAL (on Times): Why would they be so hysterical? They got vain. They believed what they said about themselves: "all the news that's fit to print". Almost nothing fit to print ever got in. And it's as bad a newspaper today as it ever was.

Author, 'Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace', "I didn't think institutionally we were so easy to overthrow because it was a coup d'état - 9/11. And when they got rid of Magna Carta, I thought well really this wasn't much of a Republic to begin with!"

Gore Vidal, "For a people that knows no history, does not want to know history, with a corrupt media that will not tell you the truth about anything going on in the world, what else could we have, but a dumb, cheerleader president!"