I have this evening already made reference to Newton’s third law of motion and Sutton’s Law, a law grounded in solid bank robbing experience.
So let me now offer, for your digestion, Winston Churchill’s law for survival in public office: “It is”, he declared, “…the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year; and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen.” Let me conclude, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, with some wise words from a former chief executive of Shell Oil, which serve as a golden rule in his industry.