Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

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.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.