Jack Abramoff Quotes

Jack Abramoff Biography
Type: Criminal
Nationality: American
Born: February 28, 1958

Jack Abramoff is an American former lobbyist and businessman. Convicted in 2006 of mail fraud and conspiracy, he was at the heart of an extensive corruption investigation that led to the conviction of White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides. He served three years, six months of a six-year sentence in federal prison before being released early to a Baltimore halfway house on June 8, 2010.

Abramoff was College Republican National Committee National Chairman from 1981 to 1985, and a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation. He later became a top lobbyist for the Preston Gates & Ellis and Greenberg Traurig firms. He served as a director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, and Toward Tradition. His wife Pam and their five children live in Maryland.

Abramoff's lobbying and the surrounding scandals and investigation are the subject of two 2010 films: the documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, released in May 2010, and the feature film Casino Jack, released on December 17, 2010, starring Kevin Spacey as Abramoff. Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff


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

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
Jack Abramoff

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.
Jack Abramoff

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.
Jack Abramoff

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

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.
Jack Abramoff

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

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.
Jack Abramoff

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.
Jack Abramoff

You can't beat somebody with nobody.
Jack Abramoff