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

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.

I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.