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By AnonymJack Abramoff
Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack 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?
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack 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.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.
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By AnonymJack 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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.
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By AnonymJack 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.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
I might dream, but I am no dreamer.
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By AnonymJack 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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack 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.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
It's very difficult for felons to live in society.
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By AnonymJack 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.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
Washington's a dangerous place.
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By AnonymJack Abramoff
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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By AnonymJack Abramoff
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
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By AnonymJack 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.
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