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All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 28
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Atlantic City
New Jersey
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I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.
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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 the leaders, because why? As a lobbyist, once you buy a congressional office, you don't have to re-buy that office in six years, right?
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I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.
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I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
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It's very difficult for felons to live in society.
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
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They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
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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.
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If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.
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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.
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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.
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If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.
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Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
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In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.
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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 and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'
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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.
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Some issues lend themselves to grassroots campaigns - homeschooling works well - but others require contrivance and connivance to whip up support. Often, lobbyists will hire vendors to dispatch blast emails and robocalls in the hopes of bombarding Congressional offices with citizen fury.
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Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
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One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.
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Class envy is dangerous.
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