Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
More Quotes from Barbara Olson:
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.Barbara Olson
I think it will reverberate with voters that, but for the Republicans pursuing these issues, they might elect another candidate like Bill Clinton.
Barbara Olson
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
Barbara Olson
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Barbara Olson
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
Barbara Olson
He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.
Barbara Olson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Error & Mistake QuotesBased on Keywords: mantra
Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Muhammad Iqbal
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
Andreas Capellanus
The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.
Bulent Ecevit