Ronald Reagan: “I'm calling first of all—I just have to tell you how much I'm impressed by all that you are doing up there in this…”

Well, you'd have to take up with the U.N.

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.

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.

I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.