Spiro T. Agnew Quotes

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• An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
• I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
• The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more…
• 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…
• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
• Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
• A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
• 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 the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club -…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
• ... nattering nabobs of negativism ...
• ... vicars of vacillation ...
• ... hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ...
• 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…
• 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…

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