Saying sorry is rare enough in politics for the effect to be extraordinarily disarming.
Saying sorry for Britain's recession perhaps in more nuanced, less demotic terms might not feel fair to the prime minister.
This is as close as a right-wing British Tory comes to saying sorry.
Still, fear of the legal consequences of saying sorry may be overblown.
But although the apology has been welcomed, many say the damage caused by administrative detention requires something more substantial than just saying sorry.
I'm told that many close to Nick Clegg reminded him of the old dictum - never apologise, never explain - but he decided that saying sorry was his best hope of persuading voters to listen to the "right things" his party stands for instead of only remembering what he now acknowledges was a mistake.
" She then closed it, saying "Sorry, Donald Trump said that.
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Today was the deadline for the White House to hand over those documents, and they sent the Senate and House Judiciary Committees a letter saying, sorry, it's not going to happen, in this case we're exerting executive privilege.
Roger Buckingham, 31, charged with murdering Piotr Mikiewicz, apologised to the man's family as he gave evidence at the Old Bailey, saying "So sorry".
After a win over Leeds United, Sir Alex slammed his opponent, saying he felt sorry for its manager, since it had played badly all season and had only tried hard against his team.
Two weeks later, he came home gaunt, smelling of beer, crying, saying he was sorry, that he had pawned the jewelry to the Hausa traders in Enugu, and that all the money was gone.
Tony Blair's office responded by saying he was sorry that Dr Tutu had pulled out, adding that the former prime minister and the former Archbishop of Cape Town "were never actually sharing a platform" together.
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Chapman's father, Wilbur -- retired from the Air Force after 21 years -- said his son called them Christmas morning on a satellite phone, saying he was sorry not to be with his wife and children.
Unlike Bernie Madoff, Mr. Rothstein sent a note to the victims of his Ponzi scheme, saying that he was sorry.
If national carriers became foreign-owned, they ran "the risk of every other country saying, 'Sorry, you're unable to fly', " he said.
He credits graduating high school to the U.S. Marine Corps, saying his teachers felt sorry for him because he was heading to Vietnam.
In August 2009, then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote a letter in the Daily Telegraph saying that he was sorry for what had happened.
The former vice presidential candidate says she wants to tamp down news stories about a remark she made, though she's hardly saying she's sorry.
That's what I call doubling down on saying you're sorry.
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Founder Michael Fowler posted a message on the company's website saying he was "extremely sorry" for the issue.
Turkle cites the texted apology or what she calls "saying 'I'm sorry' and hitting send" as a vivid example of what's lost when we type instead of speak.
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At the time the BBC apologised, saying it was "genuinely sorry" for causing upset, but hoped "it would be clear from the absurdity of the context that no offence was intended".
It's to prove that Apple actually has something of a track record for saying that it's sorry, and in the case of Maps, going so far as to recommend its chief rivals (Google and Nokia) by name as stop-gap alternatives.
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Minutes earlier, Martin had read out an official statement to Parliament saying that he was "profoundly sorry" to the British public for his role in the MPs expenses controversy.
Sir Irvine has already apologised for his comments saying he was "deeply and sincerely sorry" and insisted he had been given "wholly inaccurate" information by police officers.
He was also quoted as saying by the NDTV news channel that he was sorry if anybody was hurt because of the misunderstanding.
He is also quoted as saying by the NDTV news channel that he was sorry if anybody was hurt because of the misunderstanding.
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