J edgar hoover Quote by Tim Weiner Download Open image ““[Re: J. Edgar Hoover] His knowledge was enormous, though his mind was narrow.”” — Tim Weiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare J edgar hoover Knowledge Psychology
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 Copy Share Image
“He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Hoover viewed the Dillinger case as a potential quagmire and long resisted being drawn into it.” — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
“Hoover condemned the proposal for the CIA as nothing but the “dreams of visionary but impractical empire-builders.” — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“He was stronger and had more depth than he knew and he liked these new discoveries about himself.” — Phaedra Patrick Copy Share Image
“a mind that is too full of what it thinks it knows can’t take in new information.” — Sarajoy Marsh Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.” — Sidy Sidique Copy Share Image
“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, they knew a great deal. Practically, they chose to know almost nothing.” — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
“Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law.” — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“The president and the vice president wanted the FBI to execute searches in secret, avoiding the strictures of the legal and constitutional standards set… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“On December 4, 1998, the headline on the President’s Daily Brief, the most secret intelligence document in the government of the United States, read:… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)” — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Where were the weapons of mass destruction? he asked. Did they exist at all? They did not, Saddam said. It had been a long-running… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah,” President Bush said at a Republican fund-raiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on April 9.… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“The attorney general also spelled out some of the authorities the FBI would use under the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate that same… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Mueller was embroiled in another ferocious argument over the rule of law and the role of the FBI as the interrogation fight festered. Vice… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“In mid-September Soufan talked to an al-Qaeda prisoner named Ramzi Binalshibh, who was chained naked to the floor in a CIA black prison at… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“On June 20, 1951, less than four weeks after the Homer case broke, Hoover escalated the FBI’s Sex Deviates Program. The FBI alerted universities… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“Then, on December 14, 1999, an alert United States Customs agent in Port Angeles, Washington, stopped a nervous twenty-three-year-old Algerian named Ahmed Ressam who… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“On July 6, he gave a speech to newspaper and television executives at the great columned building housing the National Archives and the original… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
[ 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 Copy Share Image
There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Later that same year John F. Kennedy was elected president by a thin margin. The first thing he did was appoint his brother attorney… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Violent anti-communist fears by the military and munition makers justified the transformation of a once democratic nation into the fascist state we have today.… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
“Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I’m at least as bad as… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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