redeeming quality

“It is not for me a redeeming quality that you’re moving very fast in technology because the history shows you make a lot of mistakes,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

"There is not a redeeming quality in slavery," he said, criticising Mr DeSantis' education policies in Florida, where new guidelines suggested that there were personal benefits for slaves who developed skills.

After DeSantis defended the standards, Scott responded that “there is not a redeeming quality in slavery.”

The only redeeming quality of this futile exercise?

“There was a great sense of serving the country. That has a certain redeeming quality, thinking, ‘This is hard, and these are the risks.