Edgar Hoover Quotes

11 quotes by 10 authors

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial. — Edward Abbey
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Iâ€™d be standing on the breadline… — Lenny Bruce
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never… — J. Edgar Hoover
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 one… — Tim Lee
I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes. — Don Imus
You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they… — Howie Carr
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI… — Jeff Greenfield
John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political… — Hunter S. Thompson
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, feared… — Clint Eastwood
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

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