Spiro Agnew quotes

Spiro Agnew was an American politician and the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Richard Nixon. Known for his outspoken criticism of the media and anti-war protesters, he became a polarizing national figure during a turbulent era. He resigned from office in 1973 after pleading no contest to charges of tax evasion and money laundering. Here are 15 of his quotes:

This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English-it is a problem for the Department of Justice.... Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

Spiro 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!

Spiro Agnew

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

Spiro Agnew

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

Spiro Agnew

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

Spiro Agnew

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

Spiro Agnew

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.

Spiro Agnew

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 Agnew

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

Spiro Agnew

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

Spiro Agnew

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

Spiro Agnew

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

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

Spiro Agnew