Ronald Reagan: “Nothing makes us happier than to see your country prosper.”

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

I'm sure they'll—as we will—they'll take it for what it is.

I do hereby proclaim December 17, 1988, as Wright Brothers Day.

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