What a seriously “sorry” month it has been. What happened to manning up and being tough? Of all the sorriest of “sorrys” from Robin Brooke, Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds, Tiger Woods, Gordon Brown, Kevin Rudd and our own National MPs – Gerry Brownlee, Tim Groser and particularly Phil Heatley and did I mention Telecom? – It is so hard to pick a winner in the PR stakes.
John Wayne, “Never apologize and never explain – it’s a sign of weakness.”
I am afraid we have all gone a bit soft with the Oprah opera apology of the new age.
So we put together a few quotes to balance things up:
John Wayne, “Never apologize and never explain – it’s a sign of weakness.”
Richard Nixon, “In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the Nation. Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.”
And that man’s man in Gone With the Wind – Rhett Butler, ” I’m not asking you to forgive me. I’ll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I’ll laugh at myself for being an idiot.”
And my personal favorite – Humphrey Bogart: “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
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