Crooks Quotations

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

But gated communities aren't necessarily a guarantee of safety. The bad guys don't respond to gates or to rules in general. Anytime you live in a more upscale community it tends to be a magnet for crooks because they want to go where the money is.

We looked on the hopheads, crooks and gunsels and on their bawdy ladies as members of a family among whom we were privileged to move. There was no caste system, moral or social, in our manners.

Unfortunately, those safeguards can actually help crooks in manufacturing realistic-looking checks on their computers. Some of these checks look better than the real McCoy.

Most of our crooks flee to Louisiana. But now they can't. It's nice that someone is from someplace fun like New York.

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

Wal-Mart has the finest security in the area. But when you have such high volumes of people, it's bound to happen. But people need to be cautious. Crooks know its easy pickings because so many leave their purses unattended while shopping. I see it all the time when I'm there.

The patent system is a crucial part of what made America great. The companies who are complaining about the system are bad players, crooks who took great liberties with others' inventions. What they are really complaining about is being held accountable for their disreputable conduct.

Crooks are early adopters.

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.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

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?

Crooks move into disaster areas almost as quickly as relief workers do, ... These scammers will run every kind of rip-off, from conning people into signing over emergency benefits to signing usurious loans to fronting construction work that's never begun.

When you fill your gas tank, a portion goes to dictators, sheiks and crooks around the world who funnel some of this money to terrorists, ... We need to stop importing oil from people who want to destroy our way of life.

I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man.

Oh, a wise guy. It was you who didn't do nothing about those crooks in the first place. And then you wouldn't listen to nobody about what to do. And then you who didn't tell anyone about the problem with the new accounting board guy.

As long as the emphasis is on chasing crooks, we're always going to have crooks to chase.

People should not be ashamed to come forward. These crooks are good at what they do.

So don't have big bushes in your front yard where crooks can easily hide behind? Absolutely. But especially the back of the house and side of the house.

Every time we try to plug a hole in the system, the crooks are finding a way to beat the system.

Charging consumers for bogus collect calls is stealing. The Federal Trade Commission will not tolerate crooks who cram unauthorized charges onto phone bills.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.

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

I don't want to glorify robbing banks, but I come from a world that shares Willis's view, that banks and so on are the biggest crooks of them all.

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

If it is encrypted, then it's almost impossible for crooks to use. Today, I cannot imagine any health care institution that is not using encryption.

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

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

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

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?.

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.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

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

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

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

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

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

Well, I'm not a crook.

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?

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.