Jack Abramoff Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Issues #Office #Support
“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Religious #Writing #Work Out
“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Lunch #Giving #Hamburgers
“I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Sorry #People #Asking
“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Government #Roles #Libertarian
“I'm an aggressive person.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Aggressive #Persons
“I'm a hypercompetitive individual.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Individual
“I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Perfect #Not Perfect
“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

#Presidential #Trying #Campaigns
“I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Thinking #People #Deserve
“I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Support #Trying #Venture
“You can't beat somebody with nobody.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Beats
“They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Realizing #Good Business #Spending
“I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#People #Endorsements
“I'm not trying to become popular.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Trying
“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Government #Organization #Association
“Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Thinking #Tragedy #Illegal
“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Thinking #Games #Sides
“Washington's a dangerous place.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Dangerous
“The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Years #Numbers #Radio
“One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Personality #Add #Bunch
“No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Names #Want #Domain
“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

#Government #Trying #Lobbyists
“It's very difficult for felons to live in society.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Felons #Difficult
“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Thinking #Trying #Facts
“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.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Knives #People #Hollywood
“If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Choices #Public Service
“In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Past #Men #Years
“If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Thinking #Satan #Articles
“Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.”
-- Jack Abramoff

#Persons

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