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Spiro Agnew Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“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
“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
“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
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