I think from listening and watching many of his speeches, he is quite Libertarian and would not want more government control or a dictatorship over the development of the
Bitcoin code. He has most probably worked closely with Gavin / Mike / Wladimir and many of the developers out there, and do not want to pick a side in these discussions.
Like most of us, he can see that we need bigger blocks soon, but all this side projects and hidden agendas are confusing matters for most of us. They say.. silence is golden.