Wyatt Earp Quote by Bill Bryson

I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s,…

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start…

— Dustin Lance Black

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

Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big,…

— Clint Eastwood

“By 1951, Herbert Hoover was the fifth-most-admired man in the country. Asked how he’d redeemed himself after being turned into a villain, Hoover gave…

— Brady Carlson

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

“If the man in the street remembers anything about Herbert Hoover it is that his middle name was Laissez-Faire and he did nothing while…

— Robert Higgs

[ 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, who was so sensitive about his modest stature that he rarely promoted taller agents”

— David Grann