I'm capable of making $44 million. I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

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.

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

When I use the word spirituality I don't necessarily mean religion I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other.

In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

When you abide in the I you're abiding in the ego. The I is really the ego, the small I. It turns into the Self eventually.