Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes. — Don Imus Copy Share Image
The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929. — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought "That's all I… — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything.… — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him. — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
To me, you couldn't write a character like J. Edgar Hoover and have it be believable. I mean, he was a crock… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not… — Paul Sarbanes Copy Share Image
We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Hoover himself had risen from the most modest means of any president since Abraham Lincoln. Orphaned as a small boy, he worked… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
Hoover also loved new media the way Millennials do now. He was the first person to ever appear on television. As commerce… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Three generations later, viewed from the standpoint of the digital age, a structure such as Hoover can appear to suffer from a… — Kevin Fedarko Copy Share Image
“In 1897, still in his early twenties, Hoover was hired by a large and venerable British mining company, Bewick, Moreing and Co.,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
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![“We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.” quote by Leonardo DiCaprio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f3/leonardo-dicaprio-997_actors_we-actually-did-a-lot-of-takes-on-this-m_2260432.jpg)
![“We're interested in complex characters and he's a complex character, [J. Edgar] Hoover. I like these types of dramas. I've made a few of them and I'm also interested in power structures so it just has elements that fascinate me, and the more you learn about Hoover, the more polarizing you realize…” quote by Brian Grazer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/brian-grazer-10816_character_we-re-interested-in-complex-characters-a_837343.jpg)
