The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

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.

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.

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

Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher's personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors. She took time to be concerned - she knew all about my children and wife Mila and so on.

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

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.