Gore Vidal (1980) auf David Susskinds Frage, wie er es als so raffinierter Mensch mit der Verschwörungstheorie halte:
I say, they don’t have to conspire, because they all think alike. The president of General Motors and the president of Chase Manhattan Bank really are not going to disagree much on anything, nor would the editor of the New York Times disagree with them. They all tend to think quite alike, otherwise they would not be in those jobs.