Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff
Jack Allan Abramoffis a former American lobbyist, businessman, movie producer and writer. He was at the center of an extensive corruption investigation that led to his conviction and to 21 people either pleading guilty or being found guilty, including White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 February 1958
CityAtlantic City, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Congress doesn't hate Congress.
Class envy is dangerous.
If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.
In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.
It's very difficult for felons to live in society.
Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.
No one wants a domain with their name on it owned by somebody else.
One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.
The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.
Washington's a dangerous place.
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 fund-raising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fund-raiser - and have all the same access and all the same interactions with that congressman.
I'm not trying to become popular.
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
You can't beat somebody with nobody.