Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1042
AUTHOR:
Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918–96)
QUOTATION:
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.
ATTRIBUTION:
Vice President SPIRO T. AGNEW, speech before Illinois Republican meeting, Springfield, Illinois, September 10, 1970.—Collected Speeches of Spiro Agnew, p. 193 (1971).
