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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.'
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
3.
I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.
Irwin Corey
4.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James Dean
5.
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
8.
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
Jack Layton
9.
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
11.
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
13.
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
15.
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
16.
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
Robert Kiyosaki
17.
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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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
21.
The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
Paul Johnson
22.
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
23.
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
24.
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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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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I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Charlie Chaplin
28.
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
30.
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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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
35.
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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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
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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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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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Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?.
Jay Leno
44.
Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.
Tim Kaine
45.
These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.
John Cusack
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I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
Indro Montanelli
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If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
Robert Orben
48.
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.
Wendy Starland
49.
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