Ronald Reagan: “The United States is honored and proud that you would choose our Capital as the site of your convention.”

Rather than making them or talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then, while they’re working and earning…

Tyranny fails. Freedom works.

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.

The strength of our nation has never been with the Washington colony but with the American people.