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Spiro Theodore "Ted" Agnew (/spɪroʊ ˈæɡnjuː/; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to his resignation in 1973. He was the second and most recent vice president to resign the office, after John C. Calhoun in 1832, and the only one to resign in disgrace.

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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.

Black, Penitentiary, Philosophy, Power, White

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.

Divergent, Leader, Media, Various, Views

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.

Americans, Hippie, Panthers, Patriotic, Young, Zoos

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Accused, Feet, Foot, Hand, Hands, Pockets

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

Complain, Complaining, Disease, Listening

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.

Doubt, Eyebrow, Eyebrows, Million, Raised, Voice

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

Apology, Deceive, Except, Lying, Promise, Sort

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

Choice, Choices, Choose, Native American, People

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.

Dispose, Garbage, Media, Newspapers, Printing

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.

College, Impudent, Proclaim, Spirit, Students

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

Boston, Advice, Asking, Policy, Like

In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value. . . to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result. . . to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.

Doe, Drama, Enlighten, Internal, Ongoing, Stability

I am not asking for government censorship or any other kind of censorship. I am asking whether a kind of censorship already exists when the news that forty million Americans receive each night is determined by a handful of men responsible only to their corporate employers and filtered through a handful of commentators who admit to their own set of biases.

Americans, Censorship, Government, Men, News, Night

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

Country, Faults, Nation, States, Till, United States

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.

Acceptance, Believe, Country, Profile, Voice

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.

America, Distorted, Emerges, Mind, Mosaic, Mosaics

McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate.

Butler, Butlers, Carry, Mates, Rhett, Running

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.

Fools, May, Ocean, Oceans, Tame, Three

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Cities, Extent, Ghetto, Political, Say, Slum

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.

Campus, Come, Educational, Flow, Political, Student

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