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 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 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 by an announcer what his solution to the problem was, he answered simply, " Just stand up and lambast the next pitch ", which he often did.

( 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 another way, did Christ have to die to effect atonement, or was there another way for atonement to take place?

Asked of these observations, Guerilla Games, video game developer for the Killzone series, did not address the similarities.

Asked by William Vaughan to govern his colony at Renews in Newfoundland, he did so from 1618 until 1620 when Vaughan abandoned the venture.

Asked " hat had been done with the commissions ", Lincoln refused to answer directly, only stating that he did not know if Madison ever received them.

Asked if the experience had an impact on his stand-up comedy, Lee replied: " It did make me feel there was not much point ever trying to reach a mass audience with anything interesting and provocative.

" Asked if they remembered their language, the girls confirmed that they did, but their father quickly stepped in to chide them for " lying ".

Asked by the crew members if he was Traven, he always denied, but he did so in such a way that his interlocutors came to the conclusion that he and B. Traven were indeed one and the same person.

" Asked if there was an interview he wished he could do again, he said: " I did an interview with Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and it was a crap interview because I am not very interested in royalty.

Asked by friends what he did with it, von Horváth replied " I posted it ".

Asked whether he would prefer to receive the prize, or have it named after him, or be a judge, Solzhenitsyn chose the latter, which he did to the end of his life.

Asked to identify the members of the Patriots ' secondary, Mitchell claimed he did not know them by name, only by number, and then deliberately stated each of their numbers incorrectly.

Asked in an interview in 2005 " If you were an MP at the time, how did you vote on military action in Iraq?

Asked to make a speech at the nomination meeting, he informed the delegates that he had no confidence in either of the older parties, and did not believe the Union arrangement would make any difference.

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 his favorite scenes, Burton answered that he especially liked holodeck adventures: " The Holmes and Watson episodes for Data and Geordi, the Robin Hood episode, you know, those were a lot of fun for us.

" Asked by suspicious American sentries during the Battle of the Bulge who had won the World Series in 1943, he answered " Haven't the foggiest idea.

Asked about Palme, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once answered that he usually disliked the people he agreed with and liked the people he disagreed with, adding dryly: " So Palme, I liked-a lot ".

Asked if he would change something he had produced on an editor's say-so, he answered with a flat " No. " But he added: " Oh, I will take a suggestion for revision.

" Asked if he came to shoot Iraqis, he answered, " No, I come to shoot only if I am shot at.

Of Diogenes it is said: " Asked where he came from, he answered: ' I am a citizen of the world ( kosmopolitês )'".

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

Asked explicitly by Carolla if, considering that the station manager Tom Chiusano wouldn't pay him any more money, he ever thought, hoped or expected that the boss man ( Stern ) who at this point made more than $ 20 million per year would kick something down, Melendez answered: " Of course, Adam.

Asked about her husband's antisemitism, she answered: " The Führer wants it thus, and Joseph must obey ".

Asked by journalists if he was Traven, Croves always denied or answered evasively, repeating Traven's sentence from the 1920s that the work and not the man should count.

Of Diogenes it is said: " Asked where he came from, he answered: ' I am a citizen of the world ( kosmopolitês )'".

" Asked whether would she play Jill in a film, Vorth answered, " Where do I sign?

Asked by Telemundo personnel to give a prediction about the first de la Hoya-Chávez meeting prior to the fight taking place, he simply answered " I can't make any predictions ", as referees are not allowed to do that before a fight ( doing so might indicate favoritism towards one of the combatants ).

" 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 his age, he answered that he turned seventeen years old the eighteenth day of this past March.

" Asked the subject of the dispute he had had on Tuesday the twelfth of last August, with the named Jacques Chausson and Jacques Paulmier, in a third-floor apartment in a house on rue Saint Antoine, near the old rue du Temple, occupied by the same Chausson, he answered that, having known Chausson, and having been led to his home by a young man named le Sueur, he had finally gone August twelfth.

Asked upon his return to the ship from where he comes, he mockingly answered “ nagalumyom ”.

Asked once about the part he played by impermanence in his artist work, he answered: " That's what makes me do it ," He photographs with a humility that recognizes the fragility of our lives, the moments that are beyond recapturing.