' I said, 'Coach, I would not have called you if you hadn't won one.

WSJ: 'The Shot' is still hot topic 26 years later

What do you think Gates would have given you if you hadn't sued?

FORBES: Legal Adversary Turned Ally

If you meant not to, wished you hadn't, know you shouldn't have, you can rationalize saying you didn't and not think of yourself as a liar.

CNN: Margaret Carlson On Sex And, ...Honesty. Honestly

For one thing, it sounds as if you were peeved that your friend hadn't contributed anything to the brunch.

CNN: Navigating family and dinner table etiquette landmines

And it just reminds you that we wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for the sacrifices of earlier veterans.

WHITEHOUSE: Online Town Hall

I'm not saying it excuses the language, and I sure wish she hadn't put it like that, but if you think it's unforgivable and never should happen, you ought to walk a mile in those UGGs.

WSJ: Gisele's Super-Sized Super Gaffe

And this team, I think that if they were a flash in the pan club, if they hadn't been here before so many times, you might say okay this is a game where they might be tight.

NPR: Super Bowl Prediction: Patriots Edge Out Giants

"If we hadn't been able to raise the level, you wouldn't have been able to sell a single PC that's on the market today, " said Dan Hoydysh, director of trade, public policy and government affairs at Unisys and co-chairman of the Computer Coalition for Responsible Exports.

CNN: Turning the U.S. into a super-computer power

You talk to the wind industry or the solar industry, if we hadn't passed the Recovery Act and all the support for clean energy, a lot of them would have completely gone under and we would have been ceding leadership as we already have, unfortunately, to a lot of countries like Spain and Germany and Japan that are doing a lot more work on it.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Holds a Town Hall in New Hampshire

Just in case any manufacturing stragglers out there hadn't caught on yet: if it ain't packing Vista you might as well go home at this point.

ENGADGET: Toshiba's new Satellite A135 laptop lineup sports Vista

It's horrible that if it hadn't been for all of the relationship turmoil in the band, you wouldn't know this record any better than some of the previous Fleetwood Mac records.

CNN: Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' at 35: Still the 'perfect album'

Mr. KEITH JARRETT (Pianist): If Nike hadn't used the words just do it, I mean that is exactly what, you know, is happening there.

NPR: Keith Jarrett's Audience Connection

But leaf through the tomes of some of the regulators who lived through the crisis, and you start to wonder whether our tax-dodging heroes might be out of jobs today if the public hadn't fronted a bailout.

CNN: A case of Wall Street greed gone too far