Ronald Reagan: “We are a government of and by the people, not the other way around.”

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

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.

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

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.