Jack Abramoff

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

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

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

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.

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.