Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst things that was ever said in my career was that my mother had deserted my family. That simply is not true. My mother was a very respectable person. We were with her regularly, whenever she was supposed to be there. So that really pissed me off, pardon my expression...
...Exactly. Pardon my bluntness, Mr. President, but you were never elected to set the moral tone of the country. Just like you said back in '92, you asked the public to hire you to work hard--and most of them still like what's happened on your watch. It's gas lines and bread lines that you have to worry about, sir--not punch lines...
Skeptics respond that jailhouse conversions are both commonplace and not relevant in deciding who receives a pardon. And in spite of efforts to save her, it seems unlikely that either the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles or Governor George W. Bush, who must concur for a sentence to be commuted, will block her execution. Bush, a law-and-order Republican facing a re-election campaign this year, would seem to gain little politically by such a move. Moreover, there simply are not the requisite legal questions or doubts about her guilt that might prompt commutation. Pardon has never been...
...wanted to lead, marked by too much wheeling and dealing and too many wives (four). He needed a heroic life, not just a successful one. Used to getting what he wanted, he ordered up a war record from his assistant, who found the S.S. Horace Bushnell and voila (pardon my French), instant history. As details trickle out about Lawrence, we all say how could we not know? Those selling ambassadorships, of course, don't want to know. And it's in the nature of lying that the victim remain fooled. Lawrence was a master. He took...
...show based on the story of Christmas? I think it might go something like this. 'So you've got this woman who's pregnant, but she hasn't had sex with anyone...And there are these, these three kings?...Then they lay the baby in a manger. Pardon me, what's a manger?...Is this a gag? Is this one of the guys in the office...