A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.
AUTHOR QUOTES
Quotes by Jack Abramoff
Explore 25 verified and sourced quotes attributed to Jack Abramoff. Open any quote for its dedicated page, source details and related topics.
EXPLORE BY TOPIC
Selected quotes by Jack 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.'
Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.
All I have, really, is my creativity.
All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
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.
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?
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
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.
Class envy is dangerous.
Congress doesn't hate Congress.
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.
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.
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.
I believe in God.
I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.
I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.
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.
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.
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.
More quotes attributed to Jack Abramoff are available across the Mayalines library.
Related author collections
Explore authors represented in the same topics.