By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son… — Rob Ford Copy Share Image
The Lady Amalthea beckoned, and the cat wriggled all over, like a dog, but he would not come near... She was offering… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I happen to think that Jesus was the greatest hero of all time. I don't think you could invent that kind of… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, that's what he was… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business. — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook. — Ronald Biggs Copy Share Image
