The President's News Conference
07/25/1983
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
In the field of domestic spending it busts the budget by about $1 billion.
The time has come to rethink some of the tired old political labels that have blinded our thinking for too long.
I do not dismiss the dangers of big deficits, nuclear conflict, or international terrorism.
Let's reject the nonsense that America is doomed to decline.