Ronald Reagan: “America has lost a distinguished public servant and symbol of America's quest for decency in a tumultuous era.”

I don't say that we're not prepared.

I'm sure they'll—as we will—they'll take it for what it is.

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.

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