Ronald Reagan: “We’ve tried to take a prudent and a realistic and, above all, deliberate approach toward Soviet-American relations.”

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.

Tyranny fails. Freedom works.

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

We have walked a long way together to clear a path for peace.