Steve Schmidt Quotes

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

I'm consumed with what I didn't do. I know I should've come out sooner, and I'm sorry for that.

We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I let the American people down.