If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

I'm not in the business of warning people.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.