Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1553 |
| AUTHOR: | Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918–96) |
| QUOTATION: | 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.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vice President William Safire, then a speechwriter for President Nixon, was the author of “nattering nabobs of negativism,” according to The Washingtonian, March 1985, p. 11, and The Washington Post, August 27, 1987, p. C4. |
| SUBJECTS: | Public opinion |