Shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, a football match was cancelled here in Germany because of a terror warning. There was a press conference with our Federal Minister of the Interior at the time, Thomas de Maizière. When asked for more information, he did not want to reveal that there was another warning for a train station. So he thought the best thing he could say to dodge the question was:
“Parts of the answer might unsettle the population.”
Calmed everyone down immediately.
“It depends on what the definition of ‘it’ is.”
I know an affair is a weird thing to bring a president down for (seriously America?), but the above quote (which is the first thing that shows up on Google autosearch when you type “it depends on”) is trying hard. As someone who has dodged her share of questions before, Bill Clinton might as well have chewed it over with Twix.
Pendantic, but it was “is is,” not “it is.”
Contending his statement that “there’s nothing going on between us” had been truthful because he had no ongoing relationship with Lewinsky at the time he was questioned, Clinton said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
