He would rather not have made that comment, he said in the SBS6 program Linda’s Winter Month.
“I shouldn’t have.”
The VVD leader and prime minister now calls it ‘a very stupid comment’. It has haunted him for years and political opponents have regularly confronted him. “I shouldn’t have done that. It stuck like this.”
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The prime minister explained what he tried to say at the time with his words: “I want to avoid being so preoccupied with what I want that I can no longer cooperate with someone else. You should always be able to put your own points of view into perspective. and to look for compromises. “
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