Word: regretably
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...preposterous to think that Clinton alone should bear the blame for America's squeamishness. If the president deserves blame for anything, it's for letting public opinion bully him into actions the public would later regret. Policymakers should take the polls into account, but recently the American public has not proven itself an able advisor...
...satisfaction by the time we get a real good volatile fire season you'll really regret it . . . They burned me now I'm going to burn back. I fight fire with fire. You like my puns chumps? Sizzle Sizzle. You think the Oakland fire was big. You should see my plan...
...McDougal was the kind of go-go entrepreneur that likes to befriend politicians but that politicians sometimes later regret ever having met. His friendship with fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton began in the late 1960s, when both were young staffers for Senator William Fulbright. In 1978 Bill and Hillary joined McDougal and his wife Susan in a real estate venture. A year later, Clinton became Governor and appointed McDougal his economic-development adviser. By the early 1980s, McDougal had left government work to make his fortune: he converted Madison Guaranty, a tiny institution, into one of the largest savings and loan...
...Looking back today, Graham says, "I had one great failure, and that was intellectual. I should have gone on to school. But I would talk to people about that, and they'd say, Oh no, go on with what you're doing, and let others do that. I do regret I didn't do enough reading, enough study, both formal and informal...
Shame, Christopher, is the feeling one has when one treats another with disgrace and disrespect. Shame is the human experience of realizing that one has acted inhumanely. Shame is the sense of embarrassment and regret that overwhelms each of us when we appreciate how callous we have been, how intolerant or fearful. Shame is what we feel when we are young and mean to one younger, poor and indifferent to one poorer, willing to act superior toward those more rejected than ourselves...