Buddy Quote by Bill Ayers

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times,…

— Clint Eastwood

“So this is where the CIA began—with J. Edgar Hoover telling the British to go to hell, and the British not appreciating it.”

— Jason Fagone

“J. Edgar Hoover, the pugnacious director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), put it country-simple for a lay audience when he declared in…

— Martin A. Lee

“Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.”

— Bryan Burrough

“Hoover condemned the proposal for the CIA as nothing but the “dreams of visionary but impractical empire-builders.”

— Tim Weiner

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

— Pat Buchanan

Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to…

— Louis Stokes

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

— Esther Perel

“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other means available…

— Christian Parenti

“Under Cheney’s direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J. Edgar Hoover.…

— Tim Weiner

I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up…

— Tim Lee

“JONES IS BOTH symptom and cause of how knee-jerk, florid conspiracism has become rampant and normalized in America, a fixture of the way people…

— Kurt Andersen