J. Edgar Hoover Quotes

• You are honored by your friends…distinguished by your enemies. I have been very distinguished.

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• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don’t clear anybody. We don’t condemn anybody.

  J. Edgar Hoover

• The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

  J. Edgar Hoover

• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  J. Edgar Hoover

• Justice is incidental to law and order.

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• Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

  J. Edgar Hoover

• 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 obstructed interstate commerce.

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• Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

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• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

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Birth:	1st January, 1895
Death:	2nd May, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Intelligence Officer

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John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, D.C., USA. He was an American intelligence officer. He was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States from 1935-1972. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation from 1924-1935. He obtained his LL.B. degree from George Washington University Law School in 1916. He obtained his LL.M. degree from George Washington University Law School in 1917.

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