11.   If someone comes in with a pat answer, he is going to attack them.

12.   Neither candidate had a good answer to the question, because neither had a pat answer.

13.   The calculations are complex, and there is no pat answer.

14.   The pat answer is that lines have to be drawn somewhere or the galleries would be overrun.

15.   The pat answer is that the cost of such care has become prohibitive.

16.   The pat answer is the press was less willing to dig into private lives in our more innocent past.

17.   The pat answer to this is not all that helpful.

18.   The real question is whether that coexists with a more questioning scrutiny that realizes the pat answers and spin are only part of a much bigger picture.

19.   Valentine was ready with his pat answer.