refuse to answer
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There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
I'm trying to think of all the reasons that are appropriate for me to refuse to answer that question.
Politicians may initially find it difficult to accept new standards of public accountability, but we must make the costs of not doing so even greater. The best way to do this is by publicly embarrassing and shaming those officials and departments who refuse to answer to the public.
When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.