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Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
- Jack Abramoff
#American
#Great
#Legal
#Politics
#Well
Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.
- Jack Abramoff
#I Am
#Mistakes
#Regret
#Sorrow
#Words
In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.
- Jack Abramoff
#Becoming
#Man
#New
#Past
#Process
The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.
- Jack Abramoff
#Employment
#Lobbying
#Needs
#Service
If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.
- Jack Abramoff
#Company
#Government
#Life
#Organization
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 contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.
- Jack Abramoff
#Clients
#Only
#Reward
#Right
#Who
I'm not trying to become popular.
- Jack Abramoff
#Become
#Popular
#Trying
I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
- Jack Abramoff
#Afford
#Course
#Golf Course
#Golf
It's very difficult for felons to live in society.
- Jack Abramoff
#Difficult
#Live
#Society
#Very
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
- Jack Abramoff
#I Can
#Myself
#Support
#Trying
#Work
The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.
- Jack Abramoff
#Build
#Hope
#Radio
#See
#Slow
When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.
- Jack Abramoff
#Day
#Down
#Media
#Place
#Prison
You can't beat somebody with nobody.
- Jack Abramoff
#Beat
#Nobody
#Somebody
#You
If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.
- Jack Abramoff
#Choice
#Public Service
#Serve
#Service
No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.
- Jack Abramoff
#Domain
#Else
#Name
#Somebody
#Wants
You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.
- Jack Abramoff
#Buy
#Call
#Lunch
#Only
#Something
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
- Jack Abramoff
#Campaign
#Candidate
#Fear
#Positive
#Try
Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
- Jack Abramoff
#Access
#Door
#Get
#Make
#Your
All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
- Jack Abramoff
#Cartoon
#Me
#People
#See
#Want
I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.
- Jack Abramoff
#Endorsement
#Exactly
#People
#Seeking
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.
- Jack Abramoff
#Hope
#I Am
#I Can
#Me
#Will
This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.
- Jack Abramoff
#Circumstances
#Cow
#High
#Protection
I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.
- Jack Abramoff
#Human Being
#Human
#Not Perfect
#Perfect
I believe in God.
- Jack Abramoff
#Believe
#God
#I Believe In
#I Believe
One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.
- Jack Abramoff
#Once
#Personality
#Rather
#Things
#Work
I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.
- Jack Abramoff
#Country
#Myself
#Needs
#Place
#Trying
Human beings are weak.
- Jack Abramoff
#Beings
#Human Beings
#Human
#Weak
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.
- Jack Abramoff
#Bad
#Constitution
#Good
#Government
#Say
Class envy is dangerous.
- Jack Abramoff
#Class
#Dangerous
#Envy
I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
- Jack Abramoff
#American
#Deserve
#People
#Somebody
A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.
- Jack Abramoff
#Been
#Conservative
#Liberal
#Libertarian
In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
- Jack Abramoff
#Back
#Far
#Knife
#People
#Your
I might dream, but I am no dreamer.
- Jack Abramoff
#Am
#Dream
#Dreamer
#I Am
#Might
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 doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.
- Jack Abramoff
#Children
#Doing
#Family
#Go
#Prison
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 to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.
- Jack Abramoff
#Ignore
#React
#Same
#Want
#Way
Washington's a dangerous place.
- Jack Abramoff
#Dangerous
#Place
#Washington
If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.
- Jack Abramoff
#About
#Articles
#Know
#Me
#Satan
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 in the history of lobbying.
- Jack Abramoff
#Cartoon
#History
#Legal
#Moral
#Villain
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
- Jack Abramoff
#Been
#Clients
#Cynical
#Defend
#Result
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.
- Jack Abramoff
#Been
#Career
#Context
#Effort
#Many
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
- Jack Abramoff
#Business
#Good
#Just
#Realize
#Save
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