Ronald Reagan: “Democratic freedoms, we both know, make a nation not only noble but dynamic.”

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

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

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.

America is the shining city on the hill. Welcome all who enter to follow their dreams.