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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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Service
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No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.
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They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
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Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.
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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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I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.
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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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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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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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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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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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Congress doesn't hate Congress.
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All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
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It's very difficult for felons to live in society.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.
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