Thank you, Mr. Johnson [Bill Johnson, Chairman of Heinz], for those very kind words.
Honorable Members of the Legislature, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great honor for me to speak this afternoon to such a distinguished American audience, at this fine University in one of America's great cities.
I want to use this opportunity to make something clear which I'm sure most of you here already understand, but which I sense is sometimes overlooked or obscured in the heat of debate about the issues of the day.