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 T. Agnew

You can’t hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it. — Spiro T. Agnew

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease. — Spiro T. Agnew

The President needs me at the White House. It’s autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking. — Spiro T. Agnew

All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes. — Spiro T. Agnew

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. — Spiro T. Agnew

Confronted with a choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb. — Spiro T. Agnew

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort. — Spiro T. Agnew

A spirit of nAtionAl mAsochism prevAils, encourAged by An effete corps of impudent snobs who chArActerize themselves As intellectuAls. — Spiro Agnew

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. — Spiro T. Agnew

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. — Spiro T. Agnew

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought. — Spiro T. Agnew

The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country. — Spiro T. Agnew

Mcgovern couldn’t carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate. — Spiro T. Agnew

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.’ — Spiro T. Agnew

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

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

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 T. Agnew

An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike. — Spiro T. Agnew

The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. — Spiro T. Agnew

Nixon’s own protection from the assassin’s bullet… nattering nabobs of negativism. — Spiro T. Agnew

Asking Senator Fulbright’s advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck. — Spiro T. Agnew

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it. — Spiro T. Agnew

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

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

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

A narrow and distorted picture of America often emerges from the televised news. A single dramatic piece of the mosaic becomes, in the minds of millions, the entire picture. — Spiro T. Agnew