You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or a steak or something like that. But you can take him to a fundraising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fundraiser. And have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

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.

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

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

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

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.