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.

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.

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.

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