Sunday 1 June 2014

From a Phrasebook (for budding lawmakers)


I apologize. My comments were inappropriate.

I don’t have any recollection.

I didn’t know that.

I cannot recall the details.

Ask my secretary.

My secretary takes care of everything.

Really? I wasn’t aware of that.

I will not resign.

The stocks were in my wife’s name.

I have no idea where the money came from.

I don’t want to pay taxes for poor people’s medical treatment.


*NB: For male lawmakers only. There are not enough female lawmakers 
at present to warrant equivalent expressions.