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

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.

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

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Disappointment forever lurked just beyond the edges of her joy, ready to spring like a ravenous cougar.

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world