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If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

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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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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I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
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They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
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I'm not trying to become popular.
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All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
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Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.
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I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
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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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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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