Ronald Reagan: “Our goal must be an open society in which hope is nourished and effort rewarded.”

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

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

It was a message of peace.

The strength of our nation has never been with the Washington colony but with the American people.