All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

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.

Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details.

learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

I care about what people think of my heart, my music, my passion.

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?