Whatever my private hopes, I believe the Swiss people must make that decision for themselves, without any external pressure. I have come here to say thank you again to the Swiss people for their generous support, and particularly to the Swiss business community, which has done so much to make that generosity possible. Perhaps many of you will say that you already do that, since it is business enterprise that creates wealth. And that is undoubtedly true. And that too is true, or almost true.
Clearly business is about making profits, and public policy is the responsibility of States.
If the twentieth century taught us anything, it is that when one tries to do the other s job, all sorts of things go wrong. But there is an area in between, where business and government need to work in partnership. Most business men and women have long known that profits are not made in a social vacuum. You need rules and standards that everyone accepts. You need to be confident that your competitors will play by those rules and observe those standards, and that if they don t they will not get away with it.