I can only repeat what he told me and what my answers were. It may be that he had some other thoughts, but that is something I do not know. In any case, as you can guess, after such a statement by the President that came quite as a surprise to me, my response was quite a restrained one. You know, I never aspired for this. There are people here who can be called professional politicians who have been here for decades.
Career is in their blood.
I never set myself any such tasks. It simply has so happened. That is why, to a certain extent, all recent events were sudden for me. I simply used to find myself in some concrete place and in this concrete place at a given point in time some problems appeared and needed to be solved. But I did not think about how this would affect my career.