Jack Abramoff Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

I'm not trying to become popular.

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.

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.

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

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.

No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.

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.

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

Washington's a dangerous place.

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

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

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

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

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.

Human beings are weak.

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.

I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

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.

I mean, money is a tool.

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

I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.