Robert Jenkins Quotes

Now I am a private citizen, During the time of my government I have wielded almost absolute powers. I ask you to believe me that whatever wrongs I may have done have been the result of difficult conditions in which it was my lot to govern, and not the fruit of evil passions. I am ready to answer any accusations you wish to make against me. And if the wrongs I have done can be purged by my blood, then take of me the vengeance you will. Here is my breast!

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

My conscience is clear.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

I succeeded in staying out of the military during the Vietnam War, and I would never assume the right to tell others to do a “duty” that I shirked.

I am guilty of one thing - that I should have cleared out and not had anything to do with these criminals in the first place. Later it was too late. I was in up to my neck. But as for the atrocities, I had not a thing to do with them…

Before I could become a military officer or a Member of Congress, I was required to do one thing: Take an oath to the Constitution.

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.