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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Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails,... Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The... Asking Senator Fulbright’s advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
If you’ve seen one city slum, you’ve seen them all.
One modest suggestion for my friends in the academic community: the next time a mob of students, waving... In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They... This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left... There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.
As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen... Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
An intellectual is a man who doesn’t know how to park a bike.
Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to... Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government...
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