What seems to have been lost in all this debate is the simple truth of how a defense budget is arrived at. It isn't done by deciding to spend a certain number of dollars. We start by considering what must be done to maintain peace and…

One of the most important pieces of legislation to be considered by the Congress this year is being held hostage by a small but highly funded and organized special interest group.

No one could bring more impressive credentials to this important job than Bill Ruckelshaus.

I'm proud of my environmental record as Governor of California.

To focus the world's attention on this crime against an innocent and brave nation, we observe today the second annual Afghanistan Day.

We must also recognize that the sacrifices required to maintain this resistance are very high.

I am pleased to announce my intention to nominate Alfred Hugh Kingon to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce.

The tragedy of Afghanistan continues as the valiant and courageous Afghan freedom fighters persevere in standing up against the brutal power of the Soviet invasion and occupation.

The West has no designs upon Afghanistan.

America's unflagging sympathy for a determined people, its support for their refugees and commitment to achieving a political settlement for Afghanistan will free that country from tyranny's yoke.

A season of hope is giving way to a season of progress.

We can have it if we stick to common sense and don't go back to the big spending and taxing addiction that brought this economy to its knees in 1980.

The economy is growing stronger—and stronger than most people, including ourselves, predicted.

Their proposed $163 billion cut in defense spending over the next 5 years would put the United States right back in the position of military vulnerability we were in after a decade of neglect in the 1970's.

Small businesses are important sources of product and process innovations.

But I think that, now, after all of the criticism and all of the sniping and all of the sneering at what they called Reaganomics, there is so much evidence that the plan was successful.

I think that there is a certain level as to the percentage of gross national product that government takes for itself.

The role of government should not include performing services and activities that can effectively and efficiently be carried out by the private sector.