Ronald Reagan: “This is wholly inappropriate and a potentially extremely costly precedent should it be applied to other public interest…”

Well, you'd have to take up with the U.N.

We have walked a long way together to clear a path for peace.

I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.