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.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

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

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

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

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

I mean, money is a tool.