Wojciech Jaruzelski Quotes

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

The tradition of our Navy mandates that senior officials bear the ultimate responsibility for their command.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble ... deny your responsibility.

I am a combat leader. As such I am responsible for everything that is done in my unit. I just wish that our civilian leaders would accept the same kind of responsibility.

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

Everybody in life says things at times that they regret.

It was me, Dad, that hired Stone Cold back. Dad, it was me!

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

I let the American people down.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

This entire administration has been a disgrace from the very beginning to everyone who has had any thing to do with bring it to power. I take my full share of the … shame myself. I can atone for what I have done no otherwise than in refusing to be instrumental in continuing it.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

These people did their duty; they acted on my orders, so they are not guilty of anything. I accept their guilt myself. Try me.

My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.

Making excuses is not my profile or that of Madrid.