I'm not trying to become popular.

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.

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

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.

It is more important that we listen to others than to always be speaking, for in that way we learn what there is to know. We should be easy to talk to, and grateful for new information.

But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.

Ships passing in broad daylight.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

In a shared fish, there are no bones.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

Survey says: one more for the bad guys.