The great thieves lead away the little thief

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

If somebody is an experienced car thief and they want to steal your car, they're probably going to get it. The key is to make your car more difficult to steal than someone else's.

Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.

***TWO QUESTIONS***
Would the gates shut behind her?
Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out?

As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things.
Stealth. Nerve. Speed.
More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement.
Luck.

Actually.
Forget the ten minutes.
The gates open now.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.