America Quote by Margaret Hoover

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

— Clint Eastwood

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

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

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

— Pat Buchanan

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's first emphasis was on the individual, the spark for all innovation and progress. This is a man who, while commerce secretary, standardized our…

— Margaret Hoover

“In the fall of 1930, fifteen million Americans were out of work. President Herbert Hoover didn’t do much to alleviate the crisis. Self-reliance, he…

— Consuelo Saah Baehr

“Roosevelt did an about-face and adopted Hoover’s blueprint for government involvement in the economy—then juiced it on steroids.”

— Brion T. McClanahan

Herbert Hoover was a man of genuine, fine character, but he lacked practical political sense. And he couldn't bend and shift and change with…

— Robert Dallek

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

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

— David Grann

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