"We have a situation where it is assumed that we have greater financial resources to deal with this problem, when China is a greater emitter and they're sitting on a $2 trillion surplus."
"Actually, the more I read about cap and trade, the less comfortable I am with it."
"Your position would be that China would also have to have a specific obligation?"
"The major polluters in the world today--China and India--are not Annex 1."
"Many of us feel a strong commitment to improving environmental conditions, but that doesn't mean that the mail has been answered on a lot of these other questions."
"Why wouldn't they have the same obligation?"
"The developed countries under the Kyoto Protocol have specific obligations."
"To me, it is when we have reduced the threat and built that capacity locally to the point where they can be much more self-reliant in managing this problem."
"I would also submit that there should be ways to try to measure the true incentive, not simply from the current top leadership in Pakistan."
"So it largely will depend on the competence and the willpower of the local Afghanis?"
"I appreciate what the President was saying when he talked about focusing this strategy more directly toward countering insurgency and eliminating the presence of the Taliban."