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

Friendship

"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."

Money

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

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

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"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."

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