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Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 28
Film Producer
Lawyer
Lobbyist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
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I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
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I mean, money is a tool.
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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 better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.
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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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It's very difficult for felons to live in society.
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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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They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
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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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No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.
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I'm capable of making $44 million. 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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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 what I'm trying to do, reform-wise, is completely consistent with conservative philosophy. It may not be consistent with some so-called conservatives who live in Washington and make their living like I used to.
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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.
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Well, I don't think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game.
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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.
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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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If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.
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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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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.
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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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