But what, I ask him, about the 9-9-9 tax plan, widely mocked by commentators.
Looking out the window at NYU film school, where he used to teach, I ask him to tell me his conversion story.
Karar tells me all of this in a very matter-of-fact way, and I ask him why he seems so unaffected by it.
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When I ask him what he thinks about their future, he tells me he firmly believes they will reach their stated goal of 100, 000 customers.
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Captain Abdul Manan, the young Afghan army commander in Nahr-e-Saraj, shrugs when I ask him what he thinks will happen when the UK troops go.
"Andrew is one of those guys, no matter what I ask him, it's always yes, " says Steven Kolb, who runs the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
As we stand in the Thames Barrier control room, computer screens tracking the waves out in the North Sea, I ask him about the value of remembering the catastrophe of 1953.
My client says it is, to which I ask him why he never told me, especially since I had asked him a number of questions that should have revealed this.
When I ask him, he seems a little resigned to the answer, saying that Lockheed operates "in the shadow of the global financial crisis" and that it's been forced to make concessions.
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One of the things that I think Tim will testify is that basically at least every other day I ask him, what are we doing to help credit flow to small and medium-sized businesses?
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When I ask him about it, Fiasco smiles and proceeds to speak of the artistic freedom the label afforded him with Food and Liquor 2, and how different the process was from that of recording and releasing Lasers.
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And when I go to bed at night I wait on the Lord, and I ask Him to forgive me my sins, and look after my family and the American people, and make me an instrument of His will.
And I always get off the phone with America's Mayor, David Agnew, who is the guy that follows up on everything that I ask him to do in those phone calls -- I'm not sure how well David likes the phone calls.
I've been paying him patiently for 23 years, and now I finally ask him why it's still not working.
One, I would ask him if he thinks we can bring down the budget deficit over the long run without raising tax revenue somewhat.
It was a passing remark and I did not ask him about the date of his purchase or the extent of his holdings.
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"I had to ask him many times, " Mr. Gilbert said.
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And secondly, I'd ask him for his honest views on whether, at this time in American history, we should be repealing the estate tax or whether he thinks that great wealth should not pass from generation to generation without some piece of it being nicked for the public treasury.
So I let him get to the 'ask for money' part and then I shut the door on him.
Trader-1: right from now on i need you to ask him a favour on the fixes .
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Pollock isn't trained in architecture, so the questions he asks his friend tend to be questions you or I might ask if we met him, and because both of them are engaged in trying to create art in disciplines that are mostly about commerce, they find plenty of common ground.
So after a few introductory remarks by me, I'm going to ask him to make a few introductory remarks, and then we're going to release him and ask Senator Thompson to come up and speak to us, at whatever length he cares to, and then he has graciously agreed to take some questions from our distinguished company.
"Well, it's laughable - I think you ought to ask the first minister about my cosy relationship with him and I think you'll find it's anything but cosy, " said Mrs Butler, the Newport West AM.
"I'm certainly not going to ask him to take anything off his shot because they're blocking, " Bruins coach Claude Julien said.
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