Ronald Reagan: “It's an honor and a pleasure to welcome you on your first official visit to the United States.”

We understood the key to prosperity was low-inflationary growth, and we achieved it.

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

America is the shining city on the hill. Welcome all who enter to follow their dreams.

I expressed to President Gorbachev my confidence that the work we began together at Geneva in 1985 will continue under the Bush administration.