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 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 who this was, she named Harrington.

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 if she wanted to give a message to her father, she said: " I love you and I miss you.

Asked about her acting ambitions she replied, " I don't fool myself.

Asked by an ILP reporter if she were prepared to spend time in prison, Pankhurst replied: " Oh, yes, quite.

Asked by Wikinews how she feels when criticized from within the movement, she said: " Somebody has to push the envelope.

Asked which of her costars she preferred, Goddard had replied, " Veronica ( Lake ), I think .".

Asked if there was serious cause for concern about his health she said: " No, right now there is no cause whatsoever.

Asked how to pronounce her surname, she told the Literary Digest she preferred the French way, but " If the French is too difficult for American consumption, both syllables should be equally accented, and the a should be more or less broad ": fon-tahn.

Asked if she thought this acceptable, she said, " If you give a dinner party, and someone insisted on coming and you didn't want them, what would you do?

Asked if Egypt should model its new constitution on those of other nations, she said Egypt should be " aided by all Constitution-writing that has gone on since the end of World War II ", adding, " I would not look to the U. S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012.

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 whether she could confirm that the transcripts related to Iraq, she said: " I can't, but there might well have been ...

Asked whether the material could have passed to the British by the Americans, she said: " It could.

Asked after the performance if the production was going to be made available on a commercial recording, she said simply, " No. "

Asked if she would bare her belly button to prove that the claims were false, Ms Hanson said: " I will if I have to, but if you have a clear look at the photos, they are not me.

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 some time before the trial whether he thought Rourke and Joyce had been short-changed, Morrissey responded: " They were lucky.

" 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 the secret of his staying power by a reporter who had watched a succession of women parade into, and out of, the champion's hotel room, Johnson supposedly said " Eat jellied eels and think distant thoughts ".

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 in November 2008 what the current status of the new album was, bassist Rex Brown told Billboard. com that Down had been " writing constantly on the road.

Asked how the Iraqis he had interviewed felt about the war, Russell said Although Russell had planned to release the film before November 2004, hoping to " perhaps make a difference before the election ," Warner Brothers abandoned the project at the last minute, citing " controversy surrounding the documentary, combined with a later-than-expected arrival of the bonus footage ".

Asked later in life, as a witness in a court case, whether he had ever worked for any other sculptors, he replied: " No, and what is more, I never had an hour's instruction from any sculptor in my life ".

Asked later by Czukay what he had thought of the music, Niven replied: " It was great, but I didn't know it was music.

Asked to describe the biggest thing he had ever seen, Osment described an IMAX theater screen and won the part in a Pizza Hut TV commercial, advertising their " Big Foot " pizza.

Asked about this in 2011, Issa denied it and suggested it was possible that other soldiers stole the car or that Bergey, who he claims had a drinking problem, had abandoned it himself while intoxicated.

Asked later how he had managed to access so much classified information, Walker said, " KMart has better security than the Navy ".

Asked about the incident in 2004, Case said " I had heatstroke.

Asked once what hobbies he had, Killebrew replied, " Just washing the dishes, I guess.