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Crooks Quotes

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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
Richard M. Nixon

'Individuals must find out if their leader is guilty of wrongdoings. I can assure you that I am not corrupt; all of my possessions have been acquired legitimately.'
Authors on Crooks Quotes: Richard M. Nixon J. D. Salinger Michel de Montaigne Irwin Corey Thomas More Elizabeth Bowen John Steinbeck Oswald Chambers Anthony Horowitz Kevin Drum Robert Orben Charlie Chaplin Frank Perdue Tim Kaine Adolf Hitler Hilary Mantel Neal Boortz William Shakespeare Jason Statham Charlie Munger James Dean Sefton Delmer Dashiell Hammett Homer Jack Kirby Will Rogers Paul Johnson Jay Leno F. Scott Fitzgerald Cory Doctorow Lenny Bruce David Mamet Maxim Gorky
2.
Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.
Jacob Zuma

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I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.
Irwin Corey

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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean

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Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.
Sam Giancana

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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
J. D. Salinger

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The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
Dashiell Hammett

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I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
Jack Layton

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I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
Henry Miller

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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
Will Rogers

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In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
John Lee Hooker

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Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
Orson Welles

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It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?
Charlie Munger

14.
Well, I'm not a crook.
Richard M. Nixon

15.
A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
John Steinbeck

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But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.
Elizabeth Bowen

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To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
Robert Kiyosaki

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In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.
Michael Tsarion

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The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
Oswald Chambers

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You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.
Jack Kirby

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An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
Maxim Gorky

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The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
Paul Johnson

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Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.
Cory Doctorow

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I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.
Michel de Montaigne

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In Chicago, we love our crooks!
David Mamet

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Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an implement to perform political or rather business services for them.
Adolf Hitler

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Crooks are early adopters.
Craig Newmark

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Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.
J. D. Salinger

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I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
Bernard Ebbers

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I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Charlie Chaplin

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The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
Lenny Bruce

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Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.
William Shakespeare

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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
Ken Livingstone

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I gazed into the mirror... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook
Sefton Delmer

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There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.
Peter M. Brant

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I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.
Frank Perdue

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You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
Hilary Mantel

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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
Thomas More

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Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
Richard Taverner

40.
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.
Wendy Starland

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Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most Trump voters probably don’t even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.
Kevin Drum

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Hillary Clinton shouldn't be allowed to run for president. She shouldn't be allowed. She's a crook.
Donald Trump

43.
I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
Richard M. Nixon

44.
I long for the days of good honest crooks.
Edward Bates

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.
Neal Boortz

46.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
Bob Dylan

47.
Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.
Jason Statham

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By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
Homer

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Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.
Anthony Horowitz

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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.
F. Scott Fitzgerald