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香港政府
GIS新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUPPLEMENT
EMBARGOED FOR 9 P.M. UN 21.177
Friday, January 21, 1977
Speech By Governor At HKGCC Dinner
The following is the full text of the Governor's speech
at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce dinner in the Mandarin
Hotel tonight:
When I accepted your hospitable invitation, I did not
know that my term of office would just have been prolonged. This
unlooked for extension of responsibility has given me much pleasure,
but also much food for thought. As Dr. Johnson said of a man in
a rather different predicament "the prospect concentrates his mind
wonderfully".
I remember once asking a Secretary of State why he accepted
a position which was making such impossible demands on him, and he
replied "because I like to get things done"
No,
fülton was wrong when he wrote that fame was the spur. Now
fame is the hot seat, the point at which the buck stops, it is
exposure to every critic and personal and political pressur
the spur- what it is worth working for is the satisfaction of getting things done; particularly in a community that is as alive
and intelligent and critical and responsive, and that wants action
as much as that of Hong Kong.
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