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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.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

Jack Abramoff

The lure of post-public service lobbying employment needs to be eliminated.

Jack Abramoff

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

Jack Abramoff

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.

Jack Abramoff

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

Jack Abramoff

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.

Jack Abramoff

I mean, money is a tool.

Jack Abramoff

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

Jack Abramoff

I believe in God.

Jack Abramoff

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

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

Jack Abramoff

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

Jack Abramoff

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn't want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me and do some what I thought would be good. I'm not sure it all turned out like that, but at least that was some of the initial thinking.

Jack Abramoff

I'm an aggressive person.

Jack Abramoff

I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.

Jack Abramoff

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack Abramoff

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

Jack Abramoff

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

Jack Abramoff

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Jack Abramoff

I'm not trying to become popular.

Jack Abramoff

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

Jack Abramoff

I'm trying to avail myself of the various technologies to get the message that Washington needs to be cleaned up, that the system that's in place is not what's beneficial in the country.

Jack Abramoff

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

Jack Abramoff

I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

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.

Jack Abramoff

I might dream, but I am no dreamer.

Jack Abramoff

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?

Jack Abramoff

I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.

Jack Abramoff

You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

Jack Abramoff

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.

Jack Abramoff

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

Jack Abramoff

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

Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

Jack Abramoff

The reason there are tens of thousands of lobbyists is because the ever-expanding federal government creates ever-increasing opportunities for abuse. The more the federal government does, the more lobbyists there will be to protect special interests at the expense of the common interest.

Jack Abramoff

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

Jack Abramoff