Hoover Quotes

• What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Knows

  "Babe Ruth: The Big Moments of the Big Fellow". p. 139. Book by Tom Meany, 1947.

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• J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Past, Men, Evil

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• The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.

  Will Rogers

  Night, Hands, People

  "And Here's How It All Happened". Syndicated column #518. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933". Book by Steven Gragert, 1982.

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• Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Worry, Joy

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

  Tim Vine

  Dust, Collecting, Wells

  "Tim Vine's Hoover joke has been voted the funniest. Can you do better?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2014.

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• We didn’t admit it at the time, but practically the Whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.

  Rexford Tugwell

  Program, Deals, Whole

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• I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

  Paul Muni

  Chinese

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

  Rexford Tugwell

  Maturity, Ideas, Legislation

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• All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Mean, Entanglement, Traps

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• I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

  Don Imus

  Thinking, Tunes, Dresses

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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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• Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'.

  Harry S. Truman

  Running, Years, Two

  Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”

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• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Government, Two, Effort

  "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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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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• The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• In 1932, lame duck president Herbert Hoover was so desperate to remain in the White House that he dressed up as Eleanor Roosevelt. When FDR discovered the hoax in 1936, the two men decided to stay together for the sake of the children.

  Johnny Carson

  Children, Men, Two

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• The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Years, White, Long

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• It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.

  Zadie Smith

  Bags, Easier, White Teeth

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.196, Vintage

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• I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.

  Tim Lee

  Morning, America, Wake Up

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• You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.

  Howie Carr

  Organization, House, Top 10

  "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell, www.nbcnews.com. June 23, 2011.

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• What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Hell

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• The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine

  Charles Hard Townes

  Inspirational, Ideas, Rabbits

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• Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Home

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• They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Blood, Done

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• There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.

  Bill Ayers

  Real, Lenses, Moments

  Source: thepointmag.com

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