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Spiro Agnew Quotes

Total quotes: 18
“Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.”
— Spiro Agnew, Quotations on Terrorism
Tagged: Anarchy, Police Brutality
“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.”
— Spiro Agnew, America in Quotations
Tagged: Slums
“I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets.”
— Spiro Agnew, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Political Quotations
Tagged: Political Corruption
“I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.”
— Spiro Agnew, Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics
Tagged: lying
“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.”
— Spiro Agnew, The Negativists are Wrong on Ukraine
Tagged: Negativity
“Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.”
— Spiro Agnew, Replays
Tagged: Democrats, Inflation
“Is it not fair and relevant to question its concentration in the hands of a tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government?”
— Spiro Agnew, The liberals’ media pushback
Tagged: Media, Privilege
“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.”
— Spiro Agnew, Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics
“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 power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.”
— Spiro Agnew, Be Reasonable
Tagged: Monopolies, Media Ownership
“Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.”
— Spiro Agnew, The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’
Tagged: Media, Media Criticism
“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.”
— Spiro Agnew, Nixon's White House Wars
Tagged: Anarchists, Brownshirts, KKK
“Normality has become the nemesis of the network news. Now the upshot of all this controversy is that a narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture.”
— Spiro Agnew, A Documentary History of the United States(Revised and Updated)
“There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think it’s one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen.”
— Spiro Agnew
Tagged: Poverty, Welfare, Liberals
“Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York. Television may have destroyed the old stereotypes, but has it not created new ones in their places?”
— Spiro Agnew, American Rhetorical Excellence
Tagged: Media, stereotypes
“I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.”
— Spiro Agnew
Tagged: Censorship, Media Ownership
“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 Agnew, "As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients..."- Spiro T. Agnew Quotes at A-Z Quotes
Tagged: Hippies, Yippies, SDS, Weathermen, Vietnam War
“Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an age of the gross, persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action. The young--and by this I don't mean by any stretch of the imagination all the young, but I'm talking about those who claim to speak for the young—at the zenith of physical power and sensitivity, overwhelm themselves with drugs and artificial stimulants. Subtlety is lost, and fine distinctions based on acute reasoning are carelessly ignored in a headlong jump to a predetermined conclusion. Life is visceral rather than intellectual. And the most visceral practitioners of life are those who characterize themselves as intellectuals. Truth is to them revealed rather than logically proved. And the principal infatuations of today revolve around the social sciences, those subjects which can accommodate any opinion, and about which the most reckless conjecture cannot be discredited. Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated, and a contemporary antagonism known as 'The Generation Gap.' A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete core of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
— Spiro Agnew, Spiro Agnew- The Generation Gap
“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.”
— Spiro Agnew
Tagged: Far Left, Extremism, Democracy
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