Quotes by Jack Abramoff

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

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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.'

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

All I have, really, is my creativity.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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.

— Jack Abramoff

Success

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

Wisdom

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

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

Class envy is dangerous.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

Human beings are weak.

— Jack Abramoff

Life

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

Hope

I believe in God.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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.

— Jack Abramoff

Success

I don't pay much attention to sports.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

I mean, money is a tool.

— Jack Abramoff

Wisdom