I think that's overstating it. I think the idea of public confidence could be increased. I never said that there's no public confidence in senior officials.
For the man on the street, the appearance of conflicts of interest and real conflicts of interest are very difficult to distinguish. Very often, there's an appearance, but there's no actual pecuniary benefit. There's no conflict of interest, but people will ask, “Why aren't you doing anything about it?”
