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“Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.”

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American writer, playwright, screenwriter, and critic. Known for his sharp political satire and profound historical insight, Vidal's work spans a variety of genres including novels, plays, screenplays, and criticism. more

“Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy.”

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Author:E. J. Dionne

“The word heterosexual is an adjective, the word homosexual is an adjective. They describe an activity. Of course there's a homosexual activity; of course there's a heterosexual activity. But there's no homosexual person. There's no heterosexual person. Everybody is everything.”

Persons Courses Activity Homosexual Adjectives

Author:Gore Vidal

“Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.”

People Country Path Periods Dignity Workers Our Country Aspire Citizenship Incentives Undocumented Workers

Author:Jeb Bush

“Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.”

People Country Form Christianity Enemy One Thing Devoted Primitive Monotheism Categorizing

Author:Gore Vidal

“I actually think there are more Republicans than people realize who would be sympathetic to immigration reform in the rank and file. I think the lesson for Jeb Bush is politicians shouldn't write books with long lead times.”

People Thinking Writing Long Book Would Be Realizing Politician Republican Lessons Immigration Reform Files Sympathetic Immigration Reform

Author:E. J. Dionne

“In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.”

Men Said House Wife Laughter Towns Court Committed Supreme Squares Supreme Court

Author:Gore Vidal

“I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.”

Wells Said Country States Religious United Christianity United States Fundamentals Superstitions Primitive Bias

Author:Gore Vidal

“I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.”

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Author:Patrick Wilson

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