Ronald Reagan: “We honor them best when we resolve to cherish and defend the liberties for which they gave their lives.”

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 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.

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.