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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.

Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 28
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Atlantic City
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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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Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.
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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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Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
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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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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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Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
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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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