When politicians’ backs are against the wall, they may reluctantly acknowledge error but not their responsibility for it. The phrase “mistakes were made” is such a glaring effort to absolve oneself of culpability that it has become a national joke – what the political journalist Bill Schneider called the “past exonerative” tense.
-Carol Tavris
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