Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.
You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
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