Attorneys Quote by Leonard Peltier

Bill Clinton was punished for his behavior.

— Star Jones

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

— Rachel Dolezal

The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president's power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.

— Asha Rangappa

The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and I've said…

— Edward Snowden

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And…

— Booth Tarkington

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

After all, clemency is by nature outside the rule of law. When conferred upon those already convicted of crimes, it unravels the decision of…

— Asha Rangappa

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even…

— Colin Powell

No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the…

— Richard M. Nixon

Of course I would have preferred to win in the Supreme Court as personal vindication and to vacate my sentence.

— Peter Sunde

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

— Camille Desmoulins