Top 47 Agnew's Quotes

#1. You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #115466
#2. There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #142830
#3. Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #189912
#4. The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #220929
#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.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #309065
#6. I've never got to the bottom of streaking

Jonathan Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #347656
#7. Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet ... nattering nabobs of negativism ...

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #372582
#8. 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

Agnew's Quotes #399384
#9. It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket than Christopher Martin-Jenkins.

Jonathan Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #427772
#10. The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #434950
#11. Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #437878
#12. 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.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #452365
#13. Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #454101
#14. The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

A. Whitney Brown

Agnew's Quotes #464959
#15. I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.

Irwin Corey

Agnew's Quotes #506634
#16. 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.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #521857
#17. Vicars of vacillation ...

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #553808
#18. 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

Agnew's Quotes #570311
#19. The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #635412
#20. Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #672527
#21. Mrs. Agnew wasn't the kind of woman that made me think about romance. She reminded me of an unmade bed.

Fiona Quinn

Agnew's Quotes #677979
#22. 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.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #820440
#23. By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

Andrew Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #824621
#24. All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #829777
#25. 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.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #839868
#26. Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

George Agnew Reid

Agnew's Quotes #937095
#27. 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 T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #956105
#28. Did you know? Did the cross cast a shadow on your cradle? Did you shudder each time your hammer struck a nail? How much heaven and how much earth were in this baby at his birth? Did you know, or did you wonder?

Todd Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #965087
#29. My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Dick Cavett

Agnew's Quotes #975712
#30. Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #994571
#31. In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1000018
#32. A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1032802
#33. I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1074396
#34. Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

Bob Hope

Agnew's Quotes #1200925
#35. The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1245996
#36. 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

Agnew's Quotes #1406478
#37. McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1451735
#38. An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1472736
#39. Hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history ...

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1483798
#40. 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 T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1504229
#41. It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1595873
#42. Finally, after more than a year of unprecedented anticipation, the talking stops and the cricket begins.

Jonathan Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1626352
#43. 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

Agnew's Quotes #1661751
#44. Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1702013
#45. Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

Jimmy Demaret

Agnew's Quotes #1710302
#46. I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1711174
#47. Nattering nabobs of negativism ...

Spiro T. Agnew

Agnew's Quotes #1745985

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