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.
Spiro T. AgnewListening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
Spiro T. AgnewAsking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
Spiro T. AgnewThe lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. AgnewConfronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. AgnewThis 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.
Spiro T. Agnew