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

I think what I'm trying to do, reform-wise, is completely consistent with conservative philosophy. It may not be consistent with some so-called conservatives who live in Washington and make their living like I used to.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

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

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.

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

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.