Hoover Quotes

It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.

Roosevelt, never let Hoover near the White House and they never liked each other. Hoover didn't speak to Roosevelt when they were riding down the avenue, you know.

[Referring to Herbert Hoover:] That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years—all of it bad.

Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.

The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the FBI was the personal fiefdom of J. Edgar Hoover.

I spilled some vodka on the carpet, and I vacuumed it up, and the vacuum got drunk. I had to take the Hoover to detox.

What the hell has [Herbert] Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

… J. Edgar Hoover, whom you should trust as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people.

We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

I like the gray movies. I don't know if audiences always... it makes them work a little harder. And they have to work hard in 'Hoover.'

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.

It would be encouraging to us if Mr. Hoover and the FBI would be as diligent in apprehending those responsible for bombing churches and killing little children as they are in seeking out alleged Communist infiltration of the civil rights movement

I have outlined to Senator Harding several constructive proposals ... and it remains for him to make the decision. [Harding accepted Hoover's conditions.]

The Director of the FBI is paid to take risks where the security of the country is at stake.... What Hoover is doing here is putting himself above the President.