Spiro T. Agnew Quotes

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.