SPIRO AGNEW

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

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

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

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Even God cannot change the past.

I’m not blind or deaf to the fact that there are those who feel this is a ceremony that should not take place.

If one wants to pinpoint the causes of the riots, it would be this permissive climate and the misguided compassion of public opinion.

Ultra-liberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.

You understand that, by making these records available to you I do not acknowledge that you or any grand jury have any right to records of the Vice President. Nor do I acknowledge the propriety of any grand jury investigations of possible wrongdoing on the part of the Vice President as long as he occupies that office. These are difficult constitutional questions which need not at this moment be confronted.

I think you should be able to have a press conference without having reporters key in on certain divisive issues.

If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

The era of appeasement has 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 ...

Mail is quick. Telegraph is quicker. Telephone is instantaneous.

The best treated, most favored and intelligent part of any society is often the most ungrateful.

… this little group of men who not only enjoy a right of instant rebuttal to every presidential address, but more importantly, wield a free hand in selecting, presenting, and interpreting the great issues of our nation.... The American people would rightly not tolerate this kind of concentration of power in government. 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?