"You see, innovators aren't often celebrated. Not at first."
"I need you, Clyde. Do you understand? I need you.
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On one condition. Good day or bad, whether we agree or disagree, we never miss a lunch or a dinner together.
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Well, I would have it no other way."
"Faith, Edgar. Faith. Don't wilt like a little flower. Be strong.”
“When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. Every citizen has a duty to learn of this that threatens his home, his children. A society uninterested and unwilling to learn from the past is doomed. We must never forget our history. We must never lower our guard.”
“Helen? Do I kill everything that I love?”
"Edgar, you can lie to everyone else, the whole world, for your own sake, for the sake of the Bureau, but you cannot lie to me.
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I should've never given you your job, Clyde. You know that? You weren't even qualified. You remember the day you came in for your interview?
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I do.
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You walked into my office and you fixed my window, you picked up my handkerchief. You handed it to me. You remember why I was sweating, Clyde?
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It's because you were exercising.
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No, I was... I was sweating because I... I knew at that very moment... I knew at that very moment that I... I needed you. And I've never needed anyone else in my entire life. Not like that. So I began to perspire.”
"The very essence of our democracy is rooted in a belief in the worth of the individual. That life has meaning that transcends any man-made system, that love is the greatest force on earth far more enduring than hatred or the unnatural divisions of mankind .”
“Funny how even the dearest face will fade away in time, but most clearly I remember your eyes with a sort of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth.”
“Clyde Tolson's grave is a few yards from Hoover's in the Congressional Cemetery."
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