Ronald Reagan: “Living in the United States, for example, we might begin to take democracy for granted.”

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

Let us remember that the Soviet preponderance in military power in Europe remains, an asymmetry that offends our Jeffersonian senses.

This is a great day.

Well, that wasn't a proposal. That was a decision that has been made.