“It comes with a lot of hard work that we must be able to undertake, no doubt about it, and we shouldn’t expect anyone else to be the one to undertake that hard work for us. It doesn’t work like that.”
“When we are unified, working together, no challenge is insurmountable”
“What we need to do between now and December is work on the follow-up, to see things through, … It would be unfair not to make use of our proximity to decision-makers.”
“Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.”
“Some of these decisions might not attract applause but certainly people have to understand that in the end, we shall all benefit,”