A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

[after a bust of him was unveiled in 1995 as part of the U.S. Senate's collection of vice presidential busts in the Capitol] I'm not blind and deaf to the critics that feel this is a ceremony that should not take place. This ceremony has less to do with Spiro Agnew than the office I held, which was conferred upon me when the American people elected and re-elected me Vice President of the United States.

[September 11, 1970] 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."

[about inner-city slums] 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.

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

[speech at West Point, 1970] Some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedom which most of those misfits abuse.