Quotes from Jack Abramoff

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

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.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

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

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

I'm an aggressive person.

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 might dream, but I am no dreamer.

I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I have wronged.

Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I've wronged or caused to suffer.

All of my remaining days, I will feel tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct and for what I have done. I only hope that I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and from those I have wronged or caused to suffer.

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

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.

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

I don't pay much attention to sports.

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.