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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.

Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 28
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If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.
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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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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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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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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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In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.
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They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
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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 think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
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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 can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.
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I don't pay much attention to sports.
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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 can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
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Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.
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All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
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No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.
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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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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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Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
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