I think there was a climate of, a very difficult climate that was generated in this town when this story came out, a climate generated by some very explosive and near hysterical investigative reporting, a climate that was fueled by explosive comments from political leaders, including members of Congress.
Joe Lockhart, the White House press secretary, said, there was "a very difficult climate that was generated in this town when this story came out, a climate generated by some very explosive and near hysterical investigative reporting, a climate that was fueled by explosive comments from political leaders, including members of Congress".
"This is a very difficult climate to achieve anything substantive," said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, who referred derisively to the "break neck" pace of the Senate.
How did you manage to get an agent in today's very difficult climate?
"We are in a very difficult economic climate," he says, "and some people are always going to be resistant to change".
"This is a considerable achievement in a very difficult financial climate," said chief executive Stefan Gamble.
There is no other way to get started in some of these very difficult climate issues than leadership.
A council spokesman said it was still a "very difficult financial climate".
