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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.
Jack Abramoff
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Jack Abramoff
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 28
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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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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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If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.
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I mean, money is a tool.
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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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Congress doesn't hate Congress.
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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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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 trying to become popular.
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I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
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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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Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
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Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.
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