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

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.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

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

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

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.

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.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

I exercise at the gym with a trainer. I feel it's very healthy, very important - important for everybody. I feel it's good for you. It makes you feel better. It loosens you up a little bit.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.