Spiro T. Agnew Quotes
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The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
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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 Vietnam.
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If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
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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.
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.
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The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow from sound basic educational criteria, but from strategic considerations on how to radicalize the student body, polarize the campus and extend the privileged enclaves of student power.
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I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
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Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.
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All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.
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And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.
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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.
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Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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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 snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
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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 the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.
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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.
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Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.
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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.
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Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.
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McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.
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It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.
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Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
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In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.
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The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
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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 is not only permissible, but encouraged.
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An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
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You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
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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.
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Spiro T. Agnew
- Born: November 9, 1918
- Died: September 17, 1996
- Occupation: Former Vice President of the United States
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