Fbi Quotes

• The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

  Leonard Peltier

  Government, Bigs, Big Business

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• Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

  William O. Douglas

  Umpires, History, Judging

  "The Court years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas". Book by William O. Douglas, 1980.

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• Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.

  Ridley Scott

  Looks, Officers

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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

  Done, Information, Gestapo

  Look magazine, June 14, 1956.

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• They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

  Robert Mueller

  Country, Opportunity, Fbi Agents

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• The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

  Aldrich Ames

  Self, People, Routine

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• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

  John Poindexter

  Speaks Out, Community, Defense

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• The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

  Robert Mueller

  Priorities, United States, Terrorist

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• 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

  Witty, Sex, Regret

  Quoted in the NewYork Times, 6 Oct 1980.

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• In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

  Robert Mueller

  United States, Information, Interviews

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• When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

  Beck

  Dog, Nephew, Hammers

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• I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

  Robert Mueller

  Fbi Agents, Squad, Police

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• I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.

  Patty Hearst

  War, Successful, Thinking

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• At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Might, Criminology

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• Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Female, Actresses, Should

  "Elisha Cuthbert says people will 'get a kick out of' Abduction Flick" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. July 11, 2007.

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• We (the FBI) are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Organization, Gathering, Facts

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• 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 the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

  Louis Stokes

  Kings, Drs, Weight

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• I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Stupid, Looks, Research

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• With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Respect, Decision, Information

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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• This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears

  John Culberson

  Country, Mexican, Als

  "Exclusive! Rep. John Culberson". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2005.

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• I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Fbi Agents, Years, Prosecutor

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• I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.

  John Sherman Cooper

  Differences, Directors, Reputation

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• I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.

  Edward Dmytryk

  Party, Long, People

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• I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.

  Connie Nielsen

  Gun, Fbi Agents, Portland

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Jobs, Sex, Directors

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