Ronald Reagan: “America needs your vitality and her people need your responsiveness.”

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

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

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.

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.