Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. AgnewListening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
Spiro T. AgnewThe President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.
Spiro T. AgnewI 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.
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