Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

I am the government.

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

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.