We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.
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Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
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I am not denying anything I did not say.
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It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
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You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
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And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
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First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
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You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
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In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.