Ronald Reagan: “I just can't believe that a system such as theirs can continue to hold its people and to hold other peoples in…”

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.

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.

The objective of the United States remains, as always, a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.