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Question: Do you mean that you wish it was a rubber stamp?
Governor: No I don't wish it was a rubber stamp because I believe in greater participation by people in governing their own affairs. That's one of my fundamentals. Hello, Jenny, what can I do for you? What'll I say?
Question: You said you're sorry to see him......
Governor: I don't seek to criticise. I don't know where your constituency is. But if that's your view and you live in that constituency, doubtless you'll vote accordingly. But I am not going to criticise legislators as I never have, and never will I leave it to legislators to criticise me. That's I am here for.
Question: Is it the way that politicians used to be?
Governor: I think individual politicians have to explain their own behaviour and the way they behave. I have quite enough to do explaining my policies in the way I behave without trying to explain the way others behave. Yes, last one.
Question: Do you feel anybody in the Government should be responsible to this incident, to take up responsibility, like Michael Leung, Anson Chan?
Governor: I am responsible. I am responsible for the Government. And as President Truman, the late President Truman once said, the bug stops on my desk. So that is the position. And I want to make it absolutely clear, in case I haven't done so before, that the Chief Secretary and Michael Leung have my full, 110 per cent support, without any qualification, without any reservation. I think they both do a superb job, and will continue to do so. Thank you very much. And you're not too busy, listen to the radio 3, RTHK, nine o'clock on Christmas Day, and you'll hear an hour of very good record.
End/Wednesday, December 21, 1994