Retraction Quotes
When accepting the prize and giving her Nobel Speech, Ebadi did not wear a hijab – the traditional headscarf. Conservative forces in Iran were outraged and Khatami kept a low profile and did not make an immediate statement using the absurd statement {615098} to explain his silence. However when the furor died down, he then publicly took a different stance and issued this statement. These two quotations together illustrate the flip-flopping that politicians often resort to when they have a seriously divided constituency and they are trying to unify or at least not alienate one or the other side.
This is how she began one of her daily columns. She did not grow up in a political world and whenever she made an error or mistake, she simply said so and corrected it. Many politicians—American and Foreign—didn’t know what to make of this. Even today, where politicians exaggerate and are called on their errors rarely admit it. Most feel if they ever admit to being wrong, no one will trust what they day in the future. And that their political enemies will repeat their admission over and over to destroy their image with the public. Actiually that happened to Mrs. Roosevelt and even today opponents and enemies quote her errors which she corrected. However, she was not only one of America’s most popular politicians, but was one of the few that people would trust. Her words were trusted more so than even her husband’s, and he was the most popular President since George Washington.
