Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

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.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

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

I'm not exactly the endorsement people are seeking.

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.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.