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"We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year."
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"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."
"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."
"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."
"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."
"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."
"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."
"I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors."
"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."
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"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."
"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
"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."
"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
"And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!"
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
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