Well, I don't think most Americans are playing the super-PAC game. I think what you have is elites on both sides playing the super-PAC game.

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.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you’ll stay a 3rd class citizen.You’re better than that.

My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent.

Want to go really fast? Slow down and focus.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?