you don't say

You should say you’re very busy, you know, whatever—you don’t say things like that—but it’s the truth.

You don’t say anything unless you have the evidence to back it up.

If you don’t say that, then voters are in fact going to assume that they’re electing you to serve another four years.

“Some of the things he says, it’s all right to say it at a bar with your buddies, but you don’t say that stuff out loud,” said Schofield, a 63-year-old chemical salesman.

Mr Todd told BBC Radio Solent that he had apologised "thousands of times" and would keep on apologising as "you don't say something like that".