How are you going to measure it?" In fact, there were questions it was possible to ask.
So Mr Xi came to the region with a partial answer to one of the questions it was asking.
"From the questions it was clear they or people they knew well were delivering drugs," she said.
"The captain of the seized boat communicated using a satellite phone, and when I asked questions, it was clear that he didn't dare speak," Mr. Yu wrote.
But the general's remarks were broader and more expansive than the incoming president's, and when the time came for questions it was General Powell who answered them.
I was curious, but it would never have occurred to me to ask questions: it was a forbidden realm that I respected.
Ms. Feinstein said that after months of giving half-answers to Congressional questions, it was time for President Bush to "level with Congress and the American people".
Similarly, an increasingly hot-tempered David Cameron routinely slams Ed Miliband for being "left-wing" at Prime Minister's Questions; it was once fashionable for the media to label the Labour leader "Red Ed".
He said that while they had had "raised a number of very important questions" it was time "for the protesters to leave, before the camp's presence threatens to eclipse entirely the issues that it was set up to address".
He interviewed fans on camera, people who waited for hours in the cold to get into his show, but when he started asking questions, it was clear they didn't recognize him.
He said those experiences made him sympathetic to the needs of journalists, knowing that while he was not able to answer all the questions, it was still his job to take every call.
