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.

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

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.