I was asked only a couple of private questions, but I admitted to no dysfunction whatsoever.
Second came the inevitable private questions about our own motives and reactions.
Tesoro said he did not want to comment: "It's a private question between me and HMRC".
One journalist said he would not ask a private question, but asked if the president thought the country's notoriously tough privacy laws needed tightening.
The mayor was here for his annual remarks to the Legislature about the state budget, while Mrs. Clinton came at the invitation of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for a private question-and-answer session with Democratic lawmakers.
WHEN David M. O'Brien, a government professor at the University of Virginia, took his students on a tour of the Supreme Court recently, they ended up in a private question-and-answer session with a justice who abruptly turned to presidential politics.
But he answers most, even quite private questions fully, thoughtfully; even when snagging on a phrase or a memory brings him close to tears, he insists on finishing, on doing it properly.
Ms. Angle, asked about Mr. Reid's campaign on Thursday after attending a private question-and-answer session — nearly all of Ms. Angle's campaign events are closed to the press — smiled and responded: "The best that I could give you is that the message has changed from hope and change to fear and smear".
Abortion is an intensely private question and a moral issue for many Americans, but the debate over reproductive rights is also about the broader cultural struggle over women's social and economic autonomy and the role of government in policing the most private sphere of American life.
Emphasizing that her investigation of Mr. Kilpatrick, who is married and has three sons, was not a private question of "lying about sex," Ms. Worthy said: "Public dollars were used, people's lives were ruined, the justice system was severely mocked, and the public trust trampled on.
