Ronald Reagan: “Freedom of navigation in international waters is a cardinal principle of our policy and, especially in that region of…”

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

I expressed to President Gorbachev my confidence that the work we began together at Geneva in 1985 will continue under the Bush administration.

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

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