Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1330 |
| AUTHOR: | Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918–96) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vice President |
| SUBJECTS: | People |