Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
Spiro T. AgnewAll the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.
Spiro T. AgnewThe lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. AgnewYippies, 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.
Spiro T. AgnewSome 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.
Spiro T. Agnew