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

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.

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.

This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.

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.

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

Nobody has achievements like this ... you cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.