The Burglary Quotes

“They regarded silence as collaboration with injustice.”
― Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

“of those New York construction workers were honored at the White House a few weeks later by President Nixon. He thanked them for showing their patriotism the day they beat students. He gave them flag lapel pins, and they gave him a yellow hard hat like the ones they wore the day they assaulted students, seventy of whom were seriously injured.”
― Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

“then go into a deep depression because they don’t know who they are without the definition they got from the original goal.”
― Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

“the use of what he called “electronic dossiers” as “warfare on the American people.”
― Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI