Quotes by J. Edgar Hoover

About J. Edgar Hoover:

John Edgar Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

J. Edgar Hoover

Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

J. Edgar Hoover

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

J. Edgar Hoover

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.

J. Edgar Hoover

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

J. Edgar Hoover

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.

J. Edgar Hoover

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

J. Edgar Hoover

Author Bio

  • NameJ. Edgar Hoover
  • DescriptionAmerican law enforcement officer and first director of the FBI
  • BornJanuary 1, 1895
  • DiedMay 2, 1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionOfficer
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire