These guys who talk about free markets, they're not…

By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people…

— Barack Obama

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

— Maxim Gorky

It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the…

— Stephen D. Cox

“pissed at Phillip, but he doesn’t seem to care. He grins, then crooks”

— Jillian Dodd

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…

— Michael Tsarion

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned…

— Richard M. Nixon

She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and…

— Ian Mcewan

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to…

— Michel de Montaigne

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

— Charles Barkley

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to…

— Thomas More

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

I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son how to…

— Rob Ford

We're victims, and we're portrayed as crooks.

— Rob Pilatus

The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering her open…

— Peter S. Beagle

I happen to think that Jesus was the greatest hero of all time. I don't think you could invent that kind of a hero.…

— Frank Capra