Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

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.