Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnewwas an American politician who served as the 39th Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973, under President Richard Nixon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1918
CountryUnited States of America
eyebrows voice doubt
A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.
country believe acceptance
Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society. We have seen all too clearly that there are mennow in power in this countrywho do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.
educational political body
The era of appeasement must 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.
nerves disease germs
It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.
views media leader
Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and the leaders of various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment, too. It guarantees my free speech as it does their freedom of the press... There is room for all of us - and for our divergent views - under the First Amendment.
clever writing years
Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.
freedom-of-speech speech useless
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.
education college ideas
Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.
hands feet mouths
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
city extent seen slum
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.