"We don't want people to say, construction has already begun, this is a backroom deal," he said.

"This will be fair now instead of some backroom deal."

Instead, most crucial decisions have been made in backroom deals.

"That often doesn't leave room for political backroom deals, but that's why people like him."

You can't take stuff away from people in a backroom deal.

"I didn't want to be associated with a backroom deal which everyone questioned."

Finally, it's time to rediscover the art of the backroom deal.

But federal appointments should not be subject to backroom deals.

Only in that way can we put an end to the backroom deals.

At its center is what one lawyer in the case called "the ultimate backroom deal."