Ronald Reagan: “I'm certain that the Russian people don't want a war, and I know our people don't.”

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.

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

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

I don't say that we're not prepared.