Asked to explain herself she insisted on first summoning witnesses and after disclosing the rape called on him and them for vengeance, a plea that could not be ignored, as she was speaking to the chief magistrate of Rome.

Asked to explain its symbolism, Picasso said, " It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols.

Asked to explain under what grounds it was eligible to receive farming subsidies, Eton admitted that it was ' a bit of a mystery '.

Asked to explain why he was unpopular, Johnson responded, " I am a dominating personality, and when I get things done I don't always please all the people.

Asked to explain the reasons behind some of the program's moves, Thompson was unable to do so beyond saying the program's database simply returned the best moves.

Asked how she will explain the vanishing of her supposed granddaughter to a ballroom full of expectant guests, she declares, " I will tell them that the play is over, go home!

Asked to explain the fact that many of his friends were Jews, Lueger famously replied: ' I decide who is a Jew.

Asked at one point to explain this phenomenon, particularly with regard to the re-use of " Total Eclipse ," Steinman explained, " That was an accident almost.

Asked to explain the country's status in 1945, de Valera insisted that it was a republic.

Asked why, he replied primly: `` Because that's no activity for a gentleman ''.

Asked by Adler why he had chosen to react this way, he said, " I'm a chicken-What do I know from a bomb?

Asked years later why Groves chose him, Oppenheimer replied that the general " had a fatal weakness for good men.

Asked why he didn't do it, Burns replied, " Incredibly enough, no one ever thought of it.

Asked why he carried the office about with him in this way, the old major replied: ‘ So that if I meet a man who has a letter belonging to him I can give it to him, sir!

Asked why she had stopped writing fiction at the age of 84, she replied: " If you haven't got anything to say, don't say it.

Asked at his first appearance as chancellor at the Treasury Select Committee whether he agreed with his predecessor's view on the depth and duration of the recession and not wishing to contradict Major, Lamont replied that " there are reasons why one could believe that it will be relatively short-lived and relatively shallow.

Asked why they had joined the rebel cause, one of them replied: " Don't know.

Asked why her parents might have called her so, Willcox said in a 1981 interview: " I don't know, they won't tell me, but it's definitely my birth name.

" Asked why he did not pay them if they were so valuable, he said he could not afford to.

Asked why he did not leave Jerusalem for Tel Aviv, he later said, “ Tel Aviv was not radical enough – only the kibbutz was radical enough .” However by his own account he was “ a disaster as a laborer ... the joke of the kibbutz .” When Oz first began to write, the kibbutz gave him one day a week to write ; when his book “ My Michael ” became a best-seller, and he had become “ a branch of the farm ”, three days ; and in the eighties he had four days for writing, while teaching for two days and taking turns as a waiter in the kibbutz dining hall on Saturdays .”

Asked in an interview with Mark Hertsgaard why he had recalled Bonner from El Salvador in the first place, A. M. Rosenthal, then-Executive Editor of the New York Times, explained: " The general impression among me and some others was that Bonner was first-rate, but we were really screwing this guy, because he wasn't getting what you really need to be a reporter.

Asked why the ' good night ' bit during noon, Mrs. Ling replied, " It has always been our practice, despite the time of the day or night to say good night whenever we wanted to retire for the night or for a siesta.

Asked about why she broke away from the party's influence, she described the following incident.

Asked why some of her rings did not shed light, Mary reportedly replied " Those are the graces for which people forget to ask.

Asked why he'd changed their name, the announcer said they were too young to have been pioneers, but that they could be sons of pioneers.

Asked why in 1974, he said:

Asked why he never sought the presidency, Rayburn said that he was " born in the wrong place at the wrong time " to undertake a national campaign.

Asked why the series never confirmed a relationship between Carter and O ' Neill, producer Joseph Mallozzi stated in his blog,

One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races …" Asked why he called for Lott to step down as Senate Minority Leader, Connerly said:

Asked why he didn't establish a democracy in the Lacedæmon, Lycurgus responded: “ Begin, friend, and set it up in your family ”.

Asked why he had accepted a dinner invitation from a man likely to try to kill him, Allison replied, " Because I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach ".

Asked why he stopped fighting even when he did not receive a full pardon, Zubeidi answered " because of the conflict between Fatah and Hamas.

Asked by The Daily Telegraph in 2012 why he finds his practise of transcendental meditation useful, Burgess replied: “ At the minimum it de-stresses you.

Asked if they were doing it for the money, Ernst explained that " Money is a reason, but not the reason ".

Asked about her subsequent prose drought, she explained, " There have been two major reasons for my not having worked on prose since Nervous Conditions: firstly, the novel was published only after I had turned to film as a medium ; secondly, Virginia Woolf's shrewd observation that a woman needs £ 500 and a room of her own in order to write is entirely valid.

Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.

( Asked about it on the interview program Fresh Air, he referred to the person who did the recording as a " snake we later fired.

Asked in The Republic ( Plato ) | The Republic, " Will we say, of a painter, that he makes something?

Asked in The Republic, " Will we say, of a painter, that he makes something?

" Asked if he thought the association would harm the brand, he replied, " that's a good question, but what can we do?

Asked in Filmfare about their break-up, she spoke of " very, very fond memories of the times we were together and I'd like to keep it to that ".

Asked in Mumbai Mirror about their well-publicized breakup, she stated " I hold him in utmost regard, and I hope one day we could be good friends.

Asked about the risk of targeted killing at Israeli hands he said: " We all are targeted as soon as we begin to be mobilised.

" Asked which one would become Vice President if she won, she answered " If we got elected, we'd figure it out.

Asked in 2003 if Proposition 54 could derail school integration efforts in California, Connerly said: " I don't care whether they are segregated or not … kids need to be learning, and I place more value on these kids getting educated than I do on whether we have some racial balancing or not.

Asked about a possible reunion in 1995, Phil Shulman replied " we lead such disparate lives now and different lifestyles, different attitudes ...

Asked about this in 2006, Blues Traveler drummer Brendan Hill replied, " The future is always bright for us, and we are constantly thinking about the future, maybe two or three years in advance.

Asked if he had any regrets about the war, his reply was: " Only that we lost!

" Asked in an interview many years later about his friendship and time on the road with Guevara, Granado reminisced that " we hit it off well, when there was talk about politics, disease and what not, we almost always shared a similar view.

Asked to clarify this statement, he indicated that, " If we can't free ourselves by legal means, then we must resort to our inherent rights, even war if necessary.

" This Friday, twenty-ninth day of the month of August, is judged before us one dressed in a cinnamon-colored garment, he who declared to us that he was coming in order to obey our ruling of yesterday, he whom we had questioned and interrogated in the manner and fashion that follow: Asked his name, he answered that he is Octave Jullien des Valons, Equestrian, son of Germain des Valons, Equestrian, lord of Duchesne ; and of the late Louise Angelique du Vesnien, his wife.

Asked in September 2009 about the next Skid Row album, guitarist Scotti Hill replied, " we haven't sat down and recorded anything yet, but we have sat down and worked out some ideas and just played them on a handheld recorder.

Asked about the matter, Emmanuel said, " It's time we stopped apologizing and started defending who we are.

" Asked, at the end of the interview, about the pilots who saved his life, he said: " I think we need to be careful about how the evidence is evaluated, because I think these guys are in some peril.