When in doubt, back out on a technicality.

But perjury is not a technicality,

When in doubt, don't.

When in doubt, do it.

Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.

Geraldine Ferraro was undergoing one of the worst ordeals of a media age-trial by disclosure.