Ronald Reagan: “You have succeeded against staggering odds.”

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.

Neither treaty has been ratified because they were not verifiable in their original form.

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.

Let us remember that the Soviet preponderance in military power in Europe remains, an asymmetry that offends our Jeffersonian senses.