When you are in the public, you can't act as if you are private. You are only private when the door shuts behind you.

I don't know of any evidence that the gas in the mines works. It's the act of traveling to special places. A week off the job, away from home and rest and travel can make it work.

If the ministers fail to act on what is an unmistakable demand from the world's peoples, they could well this week have set in train the beginning of the end of the WTO.

The (department) and the Department of Fish and Game have essentially ignored the requirements of the California Endangered Species Act.

During the Clinton years they didn't do this. It disappointed me that they would be using precious resources to act like a bunch of bullies.

[The act] has been implemented now for 30 years, ... A lot has changed over that time. We have advances in science, better ways of managing things. There is definitely a need for modernizing it . . . in a way that would include land owner participation in any process.