"I'm ashamed to use my last name," Melvin David had said, in a 2001 interview, a statement he now regretted.
"Language is no barrier to writing a novel," author Animesh Verma told the Indian Express newspaper in a 2010 interview, a statement that caused many novelists and book lovers to recoil in disbelief.
A spokesman for Mr. Lautenberg, who declined a request for an interview, issued a statement: "Senator Lautenberg is focused on passing a critical disaster relief bill for New Jersey and addressing America's broken gun laws.
Ms. Swados was working overseas this week and unavailable for an interview; in a statement sent by e-mail, she described the new work as a "carnival of Ellen Stewart's own words from her 50-year career," as well as stories and anecdotes involving Ms. Stewart that others shared with Ms. Swados.
Citing the lawsuit, S.R.P. refused requests for an interview, issuing a statement that says, in part, "S.R.P. is confident that its new price plan will be determined to be appropriate and is confident that it will prevail in all such challenges to it".
Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Huckabee declined requests for an interview, but a statement from the "press team" on the Web site of his political action committee said that should Mr. Clemmons be found responsible for the shootings, "it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State".
Mr Tyrie's office said he didn't want to give us an interview or a statement.
He declined to be interviewed beyond a statement saying he was praying for Monsignor Wallin.
In interviews and a statement, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency strongly defended the SM-3s testing record, and said that the analysis by Dr. Postol, an M.I.T. physicist, and Dr. Lewis, a Cornell physicist, was fundamentally mistaken.
Since Ms. Kennedy's death, her family members have declined interviews, issuing a statement that she had been misrepresented in some accounts and asking for time "to begin processing Mary's tragic death, and to fully understand all the circumstances around it".
Mr. Bruno declined a request for an interview, but, in a statement issued last month, declared his innocence.
