Mayor Ed Koch had a great one for a reporter who kept needling him on a policy issue, trying to get the mayor to say something that could be spun negatively.
After five or six go-arounds, Koch looked at him and said "Look, I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you."
(steely)
24 posted on 03/23/2005 7:06:58 PM PST by Steely Tom
(Fortunately, the Bill of Rights doesn't include the word 'is'.)