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Spiro Agnew
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“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 (1918–1996) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Des Moines, Iowa (November 13, 1969)
“A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
Spiro Agnew (1918–1996) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Denouncing Moratorium Day protest against Vietnam War; in The New York Times (October 20, 1969)
“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 (1918–1996) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 28, 1970); reported in Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew (1971), p. 135.
“Your highness is already familiar with the unrelenting Zionist efforts to destroy me.”
Spiro Agnew (1918–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Zionists in the United States knew that I would never agree to the continuance of the unfair and disastrous favoring of Israel and they had to get me out of office there so that I would not succeed Nixon.”
Spiro Agnew (1918–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Zionists have orchestrated a well-organized attack on me ... to bleed me of my resources to continue my effort to inform the American people of their control of the media and other influential sectors of American society”
Spiro Agnew (1918–1996) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1980 letter to Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, crown prince of Saudi Arabia, later revealed: "Nixon’s vice president asked Saudis for money to fight US 'Zionists' — MSNBC", The Times of Israel (February 22, 2019)
“There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think it's one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen.I'm realist enough to believe this can't be. We're always going to have our prisons, we're always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and we're always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society.And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow.”
Spiro Agnew (1918–1996) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments during interview for European audiences which was recorded in Washington, D.C., then broadcast over British Independent Television on June 30, 1970, as quoted by The Washington Post (July 2, 1970), p. A3. Repor…