Rodrigo Duterte Quotes
I don't mind giving 5,000 pardons a day.
Arguing for the Constitution's granting the unfettered Pardoning Power to the President.
Unfortunately, his close successors did not share Alexander’s surprisingly modern view.
President Bush, who in 6 years had only pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2 people before, commuted the criminal jail sentence of Scooter Libby, the White House Vice Presidential Chief of Staff who had lied to the FBI and the Grand Jury in order to protect the role of White House officials in the illegally leaking the identity of a CIA covert operator to punish her husband—a critic of the administration.
The British Governor was genuinely anxious to avoid bloodshed and the American Revolution. However, the conflict had been brought about by the actions of the British Parliament and the Kings ministers, and Gage did not have the power or authority to alter the issues of the fundamental conflict—taxation, colonial government, economics, self determination. While he offered pardons, in this proclamation he specifically exempted Samuel Adams and John Hancock of whom he said “whose offences are of too flagitious a nature …”
