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

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.

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.

The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.