Quotes About Agnew

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!

I spend too much time away from home. I love travelling, but we can be away for as much as four months during the winter.

I did three winters at BBC Radio Leicester while playing cricket in the summers.

No other speaker at that convention was allowed to ignore the time limit laid out for him in the split-second script, but Goldwater was encouraged to rave and snarl at the cameras until he ran out of things to say. His speech set the tone for the whole convention, and his only real competition was Ronald Reagan. Compared to those two, both Agnew and Nixon sounded like bleeding-heart liberals.

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.' You just see the horror of this thing.

Resurrecting the tactics of Joe McCarthy, Agnew called Humphrey squishy soft on communism. He observed, If you've seen one slum, you've seen them all. The Washington Post concluded that Agnew was perhaps the most eccentric political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula named his horse a consul.55