Top 35 Spiro T. Agnew Quotes
#1. You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
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#2. There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.
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#3. Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
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#4. The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet ... nattering nabobs of negativism ...
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#7. 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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#8. The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.
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#9. Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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#10. 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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#11. Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.
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#12. 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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#14. 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!
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#15. The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.
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#16. Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.
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#17. Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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.
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#21. Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
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#22. In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
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#23. 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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#24. I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
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#25. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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#26. 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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#27. McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.
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#28. An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
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#29. Hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ...
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
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#34. 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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