Ronald Reagan: “America is no second-best nation.”

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.

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.

Tyranny fails. Freedom works.

We understood the key to prosperity was low-inflationary growth, and we achieved it.