The ballot box is the one place to drive lasting change and there is no voter's remorse or do-overs in a democracy.
But what remains so desperately disappointing is the lack of remorse shown by those who made such errors – and the failure of the government to implement lasting reforms.
He delivered the longest dream anyone could remember on television, lasting almost 21 minutes, with psychological significance and pop cultural references ladled on like hot fudge onto a shrink sundae of guilt, remorse, fear and retribution.
If you're young, you should make a point of enjoying the hell out of the mania while it lasts; it is the theatre of your future memories, nostalgia, and remorse.
Clement lived his last year in ill health, remorse, depression, and dread of assassination.
By expressing, longhand, all the things you still feel towards him or her, you can sometimes expunge any last traces of desire or remorse still swirling around inside your belly.
That is a shame, because unlike so many other riders who cheated in the last two decades or so, Millar admitted it, showed genuine remorse and has spent the last decade trying to make up for it.
Wilde unquestionably abused minors on at least two continents, but then his last letters are heavily coloured by remorse.
Bouncing about the stage to Bubblegum Bitch, Diamandis shows no remorse for the generic pop of her last LP, Electra Heart, which stripped away her quirky affectations in favour of bland, blonde ambition.
Her change of heart, they claimed, was part of her own internal struggle to come to terms with the full horror of what she had done, the last stage of repentance, and the beginning of real remorse and reform.
