"I'm just very impatient and I think the American people are going to beimpatientwith any attempt to hold these funds hostage to political objectives, " he said.
And he is said to be untidy and impatientwith paperwork, unlike the immaculate Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a chancellery man who had been in line for the job.
"I think that what I learnt from him is that sometimes you get impatientwith limitations but limitations can be a leverage... it just takes more patience and intelligent investigation about these limits, " he said.
These standards are hard and fast rules that make it impossible for, say, an airline-mechanic crew at LaGuardia Airport to give into the demands of impatient pilots and passengers when something appears to be not quite right with the landing gear on a departing plane.