Ronald Reagan: “I herewith report 81 proposals to rescind a total of $11.1 billion in budget authority previously provided by the…”

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.

We must remain strong and free of illusion.

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

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