That is something he can do really well and it would be great to see him do more of it.
"It's a shame that an issue is made of something that really is a nonissue, " he said in an email message.
"We've got something which is really exciting, " he said.
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There is the classic definition from Michael Kinsley 30 years ago describing a gaffe as when a politician says something true that he really believes, but is offensive to certain voter groups, i.e. a Democratic politician in the 1980s saying that Japanese cars were better than American cars.
Whether that can really make the difference in disarming Iraq is something he would evidently prefer council members to decide for themselves.
"Coming from my generation and looking back and seeing such innocence and seeing such passion and seeing such faith in each other, and the ability to come together and actually make something huge happen, is really inspiring, " he said.
"Within two or three years you can see a system that is really something that's got great opportunities and possibilities, " he said.
What he really wants to do now is get a sense of what is there and to see if that is something - some information that can be given to creditors to say, hey, you know, this is what's going on.
"As the public have got to understand better what corporate tax avoidance is, there is a clear sense of outrage that is going well beyond a small group of protesters - it's something that the public feels is really not right with the current system, " he says.
What Andre finds really difficult are conversations where someone is disagreeing with him, conversations where he's being expected to talk about something that he finds difficult or uncomfortable or where he expects someone will disagree with him.
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