Career Quote by Barbara Olson

He who pardons easily invites offense.

— Pierre Corneille

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment,…

— John Podesta

“Contrition for an offence must precede the pardon of an offence.”

— Octavius Winslow

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon…

— Baldassare Castiglione

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

— Seneca the Younger

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

— Rudy Giuliani

[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it.

— Rush Limbaugh

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

— Pierre Corneille

It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow…

— John Henrik Clarke

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.

— George T. Conway III

The exceptions of the scrupulous put one in mind of some general pardons where everything is forgiven except crimes.

— Henry Fielding

At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former…

— Richard Ben-Veniste