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

  John Steinbeck

  Nuts, Guy, Company

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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

  Bernard Ebbers

  Church, Want, Knows

  "WorldCom inquiry widens" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2002.

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• The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

  John Gunther

  Cities, Forever, Chicago

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• A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Nuts, Differences

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.

  Alexei Navalny

  Country, Party, Thinking

  "Net Impact". Interview with Julia Ioffe, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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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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• 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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• The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.

  John Burroughs

  Sweet, Flower, Ambition

  John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC

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• Services were held today for Ken Lay - convicted thief and crook Ken Lay.They folded his arms across his chest and sowed his sleeves together so he couldn't put his hands in anyone's pockets when they walked by. You know when they say in a eulogy, "You're all richer for having known him." I don't think they're going to hear that.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Hands, Eulogy

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• Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."

  Art Buchwald

  Taken, Writing, Heart

  "TIME" Magazine, September 29, 1986.

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

  Richard M. Nixon

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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

  Character, Use, Way

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.35, Discovery House

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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

  People, Stories, Demand

  "Comics' Barbs Keep White House Hopefuls On The Run" by Thomas J. Brazaitis, The Plain Dealer, p. 4A, March 14, 1992.

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• A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them.

  Al Capone

  Hate, Hard Work, Heart

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

  Jason Statham

  Criminals, Used, Shoulders

  Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Mad, Puritan, Wells

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• I long for the days of good honest crooks.

  Edward Bates

  Long, Honest

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• Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Eye, Tears

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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

  Growing Up, Als, Cop

  Source: www.tcj.com

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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

  Wall, Barns, Hammers

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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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

  Years, Email, Care

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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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

  Heart, Lasts, Week

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

  Wendy Starland

  Competition, Challenges, Faces

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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