Jack Abramoff Quotes

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• A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up…
• Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
• All I have, really, is my creativity.
• All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
• As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous…
• As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of…
• As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
• Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me…
• Class envy is dangerous.
• Congress doesn't hate Congress.
• Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get…
• Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.
• Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of…
• Human beings are weak.
• I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
• I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
• I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.
• I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain…
• I don't pay much attention to sports.
• I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying…

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