Crooks Quotes

• 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.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Persistence, Thug

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• The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Noir, Sam Spade, Falcon

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage

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• There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  "Donald Trump, a Populist for the Rich" by Jim Hightower, progressive.org. October 9, 2016.

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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

  People, President, Wells

  Speech, Orlando, Fla., 17 Nov. 1973

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• I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

  Tom Hanks

  Liars, Caring, Thinking

  "Tom Hanks: I'm not always a nice guy". Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2012.

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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

  Suicide, Law, Break

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

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Brain, Honest

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.78, Courier Dover Publications

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Successful, Monarchs, Destitute

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

  James Carville

  Government, Political, Police

  James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Ridiculous, Wells, Dictionary

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• In Chicago, we love our crooks!

  David Mamet

  Chicago

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• In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

  William Wordsworth

  Money, Business, Men

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• I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

  Tom Clancy

  Baby, Liars, Mean

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

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Expectations, Office

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• Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

  Unknown

  Religious, Stupid People, Men

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• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  Larry Elder

  Passion, Gun, Law

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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

  Calling, Want, Treats

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• And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

  Esther Dyson

  Nice, Eyebrows, Killers

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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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

  World, Way, Conditioning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

  Ronald Biggs

  Blow, Differences, Guy

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• Well, I'm not a crook.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wells

  Speech, Orlando, Fla., 17 Nov. 1973

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• ... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.

  Brassai

  Secret, Spy, Thieves

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• Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Years, Justice

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Expensive

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

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