Haley Barbour: “My own view is that the policy of the administration is to increase the cost of energy so that people will use less of…”

That's why we have the power of pardon because we really do believe in second chances for people who get rehabilitated.

These were decisions based on repentance, rehabilitation and redemption leading to forgiveness and the right defined and given by the state constitution to the governor to offer such people a second chance.

I learned a great lesson about government when we did the census in 1970. And that is that the government is not a very good communicator. That the government doesn't do a good job of getting things across. So I've been trying all my…

The power of pardon and state is to give people a second chance who have repented, rehabilitated and redeemed themselves.