Spiro T. Agnew Quotes

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.

One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving their non-negotiable demands, starts pitching bricks and rocks at the student union- just imagine they are wearing brown shirts or white sheets- and act accordingly.

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

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

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

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 student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

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.

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

As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society.... We have seen all too clearly that there are men - now in power in this country - who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and the leaders of the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

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.