Agents Quote by Nat Hentoff

[ 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’s attention to the case had waxed and waned over the years, but he had become so agitated about the growing criticism he was…

— David Grann

“At Hoover’s request, Agent Burger had even written up fictional scenes,”

— David Grann

Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's…

— Ronald Kessler

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 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

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

— Edward Abbey

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of…

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Bryan Burrough

It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but…

— Dustin Lance Black

“History is written by the victors, they say, and there was no one alive who would come forward to dispute Hoover’s fabricated story. Never…

— Bryan Burrough

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