Quotes from Spiro T. Agnew

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I've been in many of them [ghetto areas] and to some extent I would have to say this: If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Ultraliberalism 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.

To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

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

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.

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

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

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.

To one extent, 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.

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.

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