Ronald Reagan: “I have to be optimistic and believe they can, because we're going to push very hard for it.”

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

Neither treaty has been ratified because they were not verifiable in their original form.

I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.