Inspirational Quotes by Spiro Agnew (American Politician)

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.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: Cities, City Life

If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President’s military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President’s policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: Media

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.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: Liberalism

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: Media

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

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike—I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: Patriotism

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: Candor, Conviction, Terrorism, Integrity, Sincerity, Character, Honesty, Will, Courage

In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: America

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
—Spiro Agnew
Topics: The Past

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 Agnew
Topics: Honesty, Women