Watching his words

So Brian Mulroney says nobody asked him exactly the right question in exactly the right way a decade ago, so of course he didn't mention those hundreds of thousands in cash forced on him, just FORCED on him, by good old whatshisname, some guy he had coffee with a few times.
Don't you just hate it when that happens?
So what did Mulroney say today that we should all be parsing?

"I never asked him for a nickel in my life."

Nope -- it was a dollar, all 225,000 of them.