This study aims at characterizing the public apologetic speech by political agents in the charge of their functions. From a socio-pragmatics perspective will be examined the specific character of a content and function of public apologies, kinds of offenses and context which motivates the apologetic speeches. The corpus came from the public apologies reported by press and electronic media. The results suggest that the public apologies main target is not the offended party but to keep the image of his own not always are the responsibility of the speaker or mean expression of regret. From the analysis is still elicited that the high frequencies of apologetic speeches in the modern world go through a politically correct discourse.