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It's very difficult for felons to live in society.
Jack Abramoff
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Jack Abramoff
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 28
Film Producer
Lawyer
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Atlantic City
New Jersey
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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 can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
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No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
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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 think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
Jack Abramoff
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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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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I'm not trying to become popular.
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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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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.
Jack Abramoff
I don't pay much attention to sports.
Jack Abramoff
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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