Ronald Reagan: “Well, they're both absolutely essential and have to do with the deficit.”

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.

I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

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

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.