When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

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

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

I am not denying anything I did not say.

And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

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.