Ronald Reagan: “This letter will serve as my consent for the purpose of allowing you to form this Committee.”

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

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 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.

Naturally, I heartily approve.