J. Edgar Hoover

I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For…

— J. Edgar Hoover

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in…

— J. Edgar Hoover

Even great men can be corrupted

— J. Edgar Hoover

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

— J. Edgar Hoover

There is something addictive about secrets.

— J. Edgar Hoover

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST…

— J. Edgar Hoover

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

— J. Edgar Hoover

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

— J. Edgar Hoover

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in…

— J. Edgar Hoover

What you need is a good Hoovering.

— J. Edgar Hoover

All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully…

— J. Edgar Hoover

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

— J. Edgar Hoover

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they…

— J. Edgar Hoover

Why should you care if you have nothing to hide?

— J. Edgar Hoover

The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.

— J. Edgar Hoover

Justice is incidental to law and order.

— J. Edgar Hoover

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the…

— J. Edgar Hoover

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks...

— J. Edgar Hoover

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands…

— J. Edgar Hoover

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

— J. Edgar Hoover

There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him

— J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed.…

— J. Edgar Hoover

We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

— J. Edgar Hoover

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

— J. Edgar Hoover

The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very…

— J. Edgar Hoover