"People look in a very straightforward way, which I share, at the banks which were bailed out.
His message, he says, is very straightforward: look at my record and trust me.
"Look, I've been very straightforward about this situation for many weeks, and if the numbers are what's speculated, and Jose does leave us, I don't think people will be surprised that under those circumstances he went elsewhere," Alderson said.
They are looking for certain archetypes: "a very straightforward ethnic Russian who's proud of the motherland," a Russian Jew, someone from the Caucasus.
"It's simple and elegant, a very straightforward approach to looking at these kinds of data.
"If you look at the math, it is very straightforward," he says.
"If you look at the maths it is very straightforward," he says.
She did so by becoming a highly skilled, pragmatic, and indefatigable administrator who was "very straightforward, always calm, collected, looking for ways to make things happen," Singer says.
Shortly after he took office in 2001, he said he had looked the former KGB officer in the eye and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy".
He has "looked [Russia's President Putin] in the eye [and] found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy".
