Ronald Reagan: “You've all said no—a most emphatic no—to mediocrity, to averageness, to timidity.”

Rather than making them or talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then, while they’re working and earning…

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

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

Let us always take with us the spirit of vision, skill, and excellence.