If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

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.

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.

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

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

Being comfortable with who you are is the ultimate threat.

To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out honestly.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.