Hoover's first emphasis was on the individual, the spark…

As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade…

— William M. Daley

The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of…

— Richard M. Weaver

Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked his way…

— Margaret Hoover

There's something really specific about being a Hoover and the pejorative term that was multigenerationally tethered to economic hard times, misery and antipathy for…

— Margaret Hoover

Hoover was a globalist and a technologist, and he understood America's rising position in the world. He believed that America could extend its power…

— Margaret Hoover

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

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

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

— John Sherman Cooper