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.

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.

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

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

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.

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

Even great men can be corrupted