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I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.
Gary Gilmore
Me
I Am
Looking
Finally
See
Glad
Am
Jury
You can keep a person locked up too long.
Gary Gilmore
You
Long
Too
Locked
Locked Up
Up
Person
Keep
I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.
Giuseppe Zangara
Gun
First
President
Presidents
Kings
Like
Because
Hand
Want
Next
Capitalists
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
Giuseppe Zangara
Me
You
Man
Care
Crook
Too
Give
Give Me
Put
Afraid
Capitalists
Electric
Chair
The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
Guy Burgess
Time
Justice
Peace
Strange
People
Way
Though
Folks
Some
Somehow
Feature
Winners
Constructive
Tends
Nobel
Nobel Peace Prize
Nonviolent
Prize
From Time To Time
Social
Social Justice
Who
Fought
The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.
Guy Burgess
Time
You
Television
Find
Able
About
Mass
Days
Mass Media
Just
Story
Interested
Newspapers
Hard
Media
All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Heinrich Himmler
Work
Thankful
You
Be Happy
Happy
People
Genius
Fate
Leader
Our
Once
Members
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Adolf
Given
Allowed
Years
Germanic
Fuehrer
Us
Should
Who
Among
One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.
Heinrich Himmler
Enemy
Will
Ought
Once
One Thing
Supplies
Him
Continent
Overseas
Get
Dependent
Where
Wherever
Grips
Us
Certain
Lands
Right
Thing
Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life.
Heinrich Himmler
Life
Best
World
Like
Germanic
Just
Now
Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Hermann Goering
Life
War
Best
People
Farm
Back
Out
Slob
Risk
He
Come
Piece
Course
His
Get
Want
Poor
Should
Why
Thing
I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.
Jack Abramoff
People
Somebody
Think
I Think
Telling
American
Happening
Them
American People
Really
Washington
Deserve
Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.
Jack Abramoff
People
Try
Will
Criticism
Anti-Semitism
Jews
Through
Reaction
Well
Sort
Because
Prism
Any
Often
View
Use
Things
When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.
Jack Abramoff
Day
Prison
Down
Locked
Over
Because
Arrived
Place
Media
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.
Jack Abramoff
Life
Government
You
Organization
Congress
Federal
Federal Government
Any
Staff
Which
Should
Working
Congressional
Barred
Company
Chose
Serve
Association
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.
Jack Abramoff
Government
Good
Constitution
Lobbying
Lobbyists
Honorable
Our
Say
Bad
Something
Bad Thing
Trying
Should
Petition
Thing
As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
Jack Abramoff
Result
Cynical
Charged
Clients
Been
Very
Barbarian
Portrayed
Defend
A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'
Jack Abramoff
You
Phone
Law
Old
Will
Partner
Lobby
Lobbying
Say
Law Firm
Pick
Firm
Buddies
Buddy
New
Come
Hill
Call
Years
Off
Up
Jack
Senate
Senator
Listen
Capitol
Capitol Hill
Barred
Now
Here
Two
They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business.
Jack Abramoff
Good
Business
Spending
Just
Realize
Billions
Millions
Save
I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign.
Jack Abramoff
Positive
Saying
Fear
Try
Will
Presidential
About
Like
Campaign
Any
Candidate
Anything
Them
Then
Avoid
Actually
I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.
Jack Abramoff
Carefully
Hundreds
Finding
Know
Making
Intellectually
Get
Legally
Capable
Series
Things
Millions
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.
Jack Abramoff
History
Legal
Lobbying
Philosophical
Framework
Moral
Cartoon
Within
Greatest
Been
Legal Framework
Did
The History Of
Turned
Villain
All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.
Jack Abramoff
Me
People
Monster
Cartoon
See
Want
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.
Jack Abramoff
Words
Regret
I Am
Will
Sorry
Mistakes
Able
Sorrow
How
Am
Caused
Express
Multitude
Ever
Profound
Harm
As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.
Jack Abramoff
Natural
Reward
Thought
Saved
Lobbying
Lobbyist
Our
Sums
Those
Members
Only
Generous
Became
Clients
Quid
Efforts
Pro
Contributions
Substantial
Quo
Them
Should
Who
Right
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.
Jack Abramoff
Those
Out
Taken
Another
Context
E-Mails
Been
Effort
Many
Career
Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.
Jack Abramoff
Way
Corrupt
React
Forced
Because
Democrats
Get
Same
Just
Want
Republicans
Ignore
Basically
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