No comment

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For the album by Front 242, see No Comment (album).

No comment is a phrase used as a response to journalistic inquiries which the respondent does not wish to answer. Public figures may decline to comment on issues they are questioned about if they wish to avoid having a stated opinion about the matter on the record, or if they simply have nothing to say about the issue at the time.

No Comment is the name of a co-ed a cappella group from the University of Illinois. [1]

No Comment is the name of a post-punk group from Split, Croatia [2]

No Comment is also the name of a book of cartoons by Nurit Karlin, ISBN 0-684-15794-2 [3]

1 Notable uses of No comment
2 Fictional references
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Notable uses of No comment

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. - Winston Churchill, unknown date^[1]
No comment.... in glorious Technicolor! - Harold Wilson, 1963, When asked for a statement on an unfolding scandal.
I don't believe in that "no comment" business. I always have a comment. - Martha Beall Mitchell^[2]

[edit] Fictional references

From the film Notting Hill.

Max: You haven't slept with her, have you?
William: That is a cheap question and the answer is, of course, no comment.
Max: "No comment" means "yes."
William: No it doesn't.
Max: Do you ever masturbate?
William: DEFINITELY no comment.
Max: You see? It means "yes."