An Honest Way to Dodge a Question

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) “said something out loud that reporters who cover him regularly have known for a long time – he occasionally mangles his language badly, speaking in sentence fragments and run-on sentences as he makes his point,” the Columbia Daily Tribune reports.

Said Nixon in response to a reporter: “That’s a good question. I can do one of two things. I can tell you I don’t have a good answer to that and then I can talk for about a minute, or I can say I don’t have a good answer to that and then we can go to the next question. It is your guys’ choice. Pick a subject. I can talk for a minute on basically anything and be stunningly unquotable.”