Ronald Reagan: “We the People are in charge, and we need give our loyalty not to self-appointed rulers but to liberty.”

It was a message of peace.

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

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.