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America
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In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.
-Spiro T. Agnew
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City Life, Cities
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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 T. Agnew
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Liberalism
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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 T. Agnew, speech before Illinois Republican meeting, Springfield, Illinois, September 10, 1970
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Media
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"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 T. Agnew
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Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
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Past, the
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"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
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Terrorism
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"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
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Vietnam
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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.
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Women
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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.
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Books by and about Spiro T. Agnew
