Ronald Reagan: “Through their spirit, minds, and muscles, America's workers have created a modern industrial giant.”

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.

Rather than making them or talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then, while they’re working and earning…

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

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.