I don't see him as a hypocrite, now or then, watching this film. I think he had a huge burden of responsibility to fulfill, I feel that he wished he didn't have to shoulder that burden and that's essentially what he meant by "wanting out". He wanted to not have to do it, but he HAD to do it. It was the difference between being stuck in limbo (the world of crime he was immersed in) and keeping his family alive in physical and in name- Or losing all of that to become "legitimate". And legitimacy had been tainted in his eyes as well, as soon as Sen. Geary was introduced to him.
But that's my opinion, to each his own. =)