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.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.

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

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

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

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Well, I'm not a crook.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp

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

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Crooks are early adopters.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

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?

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.

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

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?.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

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

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

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

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

I long for the days of good honest crooks.