If the Bush name was tarnished by breaking the no-new-taxes pledge in an honorable effort to cut the deficit, W. can fix that.
— Philip Gourevitch * President Obama: It's honorable that you made a family pledge to try and have dinner with your family most nights.
President Obama: It's honorable that you made a family pledge to try and have dinner with your family most nights.
Then he must convince voters that he will back up his pledge to bring an honorable and workable end to the Iraq war.
It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could".
" the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could".
"It appears many honorable members of Jaish al-Mahdi are fulfilling Sadr's pledge of honor to stop attacks and reduce the violence," the military said, using the Arabic name for Mr. Sadr's group.
Fortunately, I believe that the vast majority of us have done honorable and productive things with our advantages, and it's encouraging to see at least some new grads pledging to uphold that tradition.
He won his most resounding applause with a pledge "to fight if necessary" over Berlin but tempered this declaration with a promise to "spare no honorable effort to find a peaceful and mutually acceptable resolution of this problem".
These are honorable aims.
