This is surely too modest, but it is also true that he has had much good fortune in his political career, and made many friends, so when President Chen Shui-bian began to consider asking him to be vice-premier, his Ilan connections went to bat for him.
這樣的說法或許太過謙虛，但從政路上他也確實結了許多善緣，陳水扁總統之前在考慮副閣揆人選時，「宜蘭幫」政治人物就全力為他背書。