Spiro T. Agnew Quotes

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  College, Spirit, Students

  Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969, in 'Frankly Speaking' (1970) ch. 3

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• 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 T. Agnew

  Sarcastic, United States, Clubs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 T. Agnew

  Philosophy, Power, White

  Speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 28, 1970.

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• There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  People, Our Society, Should

  The Washington Post, (p. A3), July 2, 1970.

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• 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 T. Agnew

  Night, Men, News

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Zoos, Hippie, Black

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Media, Bird, Cages

  "The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1970.

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Ocean, Able, Three Things

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Education, Rocks, White

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Lying, Apology, Promise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Men, Intellectual, Parks

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• 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!

  Spiro T. Agnew

  New York, Government, Office

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”

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• Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Media, Garbage, Printing

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Drama, Doe, Ongoing

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Freedom Of Speech, Useless, Speech

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Scary, Assassins, Bullets

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Power, Hands, People

  "The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment".

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Zoos, Hippie, Patriotic

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• The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, United States, Faults

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• Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Native American, People, Choices

  "The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment".

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• Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Today, Foreign Policy, Translate

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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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.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Men, Liberty, Tiny

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Listening, Complaining, Disease

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• 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, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society.... We have seen all too clearly that there are men - now in power in this country - who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, Believe, Acceptance

  "The Impudent Snobs" by John R. Coyne, Jr., (p. 324), 1972.

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• The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Punishment, Criminals, Crime

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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