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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Leader, Climate, Blind

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

  Brenda Fricker

  Pain, Hockey, Abuse

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• We were among Hoover's conduits to the American people.

  Pat Buchanan

  People

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• I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

  Robert Fripp

  Students, Music Love, Plumber

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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 have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  Gail Porter

  Feel Better, Cleaning, Problem

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• Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much. That's why I've worn the hat. Goodbye.' I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.

  Isabella Blow

  Goodbye, Fashion, Kissing

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• President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

  Sam Ewing

  Business, Government, Ideas

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• I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  College, Geology

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• All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

  Lenny Bruce

  Despair, World, Disease

  The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, epigram (1967)

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• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  Gale Norton

  Air, Years, Pollution Control

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mother, Men, Expectations

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• I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

  Germaine Greer

  Fighting, Feminism, Vacuums

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• It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

  Al Sharpton

  Commitment, Giving, Acres

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Bored, Machines, Next

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.45, Macmillan

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• For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

  Cory Booker

  Bridges, Growth, Railroads

  Cory Booker's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Educational, Government

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• The election of Hoover...should result in continued prosperity for 1929.

  Roger Babson

  Election, Prosperity, Economy

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• J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

  Edward Abbey

  J Edgar Hoover, Parnell, Shitheads

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• It's easy to see why conservatives would be salivating at the thought of a Hillary primary challenge. Presidents who face serious primary challenges—Ford, Carter, Bush I—almost always lose. The last president who lost reelection without a serious primary challenge, by contrast, was Herbert Hoover. But in truth, the chances that Obama will face a primary challenge are vanishingly slim, and the chances that he will lose reelection only slightly higher. No wonder conservatives are fantasizing about Hillary Clinton taking down Barack Obama. If she doesn't, it's unlikely they will.

  Peter Beinart

  Challenges, President, Would Be

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