Jack Abramoff Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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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“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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“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.”
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“I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.”
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“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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“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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“I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.”
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“I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.”
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“They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.”
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“I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.”
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“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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“Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.”
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“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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“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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“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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“No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.”
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“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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“It's very difficult for felons to live in society.”
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“In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.”
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“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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“If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.”
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“In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.”
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“If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.”
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“Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.”
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