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

— John Sherman Cooper

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

— Clint Eastwood

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

— Clarence Darrow

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create…

— Paul Sarbanes

If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful…

— Edward Snowden

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

— Alexander Cockburn

Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated…

— Barry Eichengreen

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you…

— Bill Ayers

[ 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…

— Clint Eastwood

Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce secretary, he…

— Margaret Hoover

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or…

— Robert Fripp

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave…

— Mariella Frostrup

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes…

— Howie Carr

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

— Mitch Hedberg