Ronald Reagan: “I have always felt that a Vice President should be an executive vice president, as in a corporation.”

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.

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

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

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