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.

I am not denying anything I did not say.

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

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

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

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

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.