J Edgar Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.
— Edward Abbey
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline…
— Lenny Bruce
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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 the…
— Louis Stokes
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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
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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
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I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.
— Don Imus
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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
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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
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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
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She shook her head slowly. “I don’t believe you. You can’t be a cop.†“Not a cop.†“Federal agent?†“FBI.†“Even more unlikely.†“J. Edgar…
— Sandra Brown
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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
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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
Who Wrote These J Edgar Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 J Edgar Quotes as follows: