Once, when he was serving as minister of the interior, for example, someone tried to get Lin to authorize the release of a brother being held in police custody. His answer in such cases in an unequivocal "no."
例如，在內政部長任內，曾有朋友請他幫忙，釋放其因案被羈押的弟弟；那個朋友說：「你現在官做得很大，而且全國警察都歸你管，打個電話一定就沒事了。」