If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

I'm not trying to become popular.

All I have, really, is my creativity.

Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.