They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

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.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

She did not even trouble herself much to show Godfrey her gratitude. We may spoil gratitude as we offer it, by insisting on its recognition. To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

A true friend is a reflection of yourself.

Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.

I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.

Mercy often inflicts death.

My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.