Ronald Reagan: “I believe that it is a day that should be nationally recognized.”

I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

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

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

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.