J. Edgar Hoover

“Justice is incidental to law and order.”

“The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation.”

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.”

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

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

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

“When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.”

“Love is something that is beyond the jurisdiction of the law.”

“The FBI's purpose is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.”

“Public corruption is a stain on our country. It is a cancer that eats away at the fabric of our society and abuses the trust of our citizens.”

“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.”

“The Reds, phonies, and the 'parlor pinks' seem to be spawn of the devil.”