Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

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.

They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.

In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

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