Ronald Reagan: “Most important is the widespread recognition that the situation is not hopeless; that drug abuse can be conquered.”

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

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Well, that wasn't a proposal. That was a decision that has been made.

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.