Ronald Reagan: “Diplomacy is important, but friendship leaves an even more lasting impression.”

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.

I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

We've only heard the same as you've heard: that he has been suggesting doing something of this kind.

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.