Ronald Reagan: “That's why I spoke as harshly as I did about a couple of those stories.”

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.

Each of us can give young people the good example of reading ourselves.

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.