Quotes by Jack Abramoff

About Jack Abramoff:

Jack Allan Abramoff is a former American lobbyist, businessman, movie producer and writer. He was at the center of an extensive corruption investigation that led to his conviction and to 21 people either pleading guilty or being found guilty, including White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides.
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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

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

Jack 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.

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack 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.

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack 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 turn...

Jack 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.

Jack 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.

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack 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.

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack 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.

Jack Abramoff

I might dream, but I am no dreamer.

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack Abramoff

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

Jack Abramoff

All I have, really, is my creativity.

Jack Abramoff

Author Bio

  • NameJack Abramoff
  • DescriptionRepublican lobbyist
  • BornFebruary 28, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Lawyer; Lobbyist