Not to belabor the obvious, but usually if you get the questions right you not only have a better chance of getting the right answers, but you probably make the whole process so much easier.

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It needs wisdom to get the balance between the incomplete answers to all these questions reasonably right.

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"The Human Genetics Commission is right to ask these questions because commercial organisations get into these areas quite quickly without thinking through the implications, " Dr Prior said.

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How did we get into -- how did we not ask the right questions?

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"The health bill represents a major opportunity to get these policy questions right, " he said.

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If you're an Assembly Member and a member of a scrutiny committee at that, then you're paid - partly - to ask the right, proper and the awkward questions when you get the chance.

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But in the end -- and this is where we get serious -- because in the end, these questions are on us -- right now.

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She questions whether her sons, who sleep on mattresses on the floor, will get the right nutrition.

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