Even a roof, they insisted, when technology allows.
But she insisted: "When people say you can't afford this, it's a bit hopeless.
(Indeed, he insisted when he resigned that he did not know about the cheat devices).
But other friends insisted, "When she takes the pills, she's just not herself anymore".
"Islam is Islam," he insisted when asked about Muslims who believe differently than he.
It was a bit of shtick he'd been doing for ages, but never, he insisted, when children could hear.
"You can't say the world has forgotten about him," John Kamm insisted, when we spoke not long ago.
Earlier, O'Neill had insisted, when asked about his wife's illness, that he didn't want any "sympathetic votes".
"No, he is very good at being told he is wrong," Barrack insisted when pressed on this point.
The first lady insisted, when her husband's wandering came up, that they deserved a zone of privacy.
But, as Tony Blair so eloquently insisted when he first led the party, it is sometimes necessary to move on.
